Final Project

(Thoughts Before)

So, when I sat down to finally do this project I wasn't very sure of what exactly I'd do. My big idea is fairly broad, and I went over a lot of things in my brainstorm blog post. I knew that I wanted one of the photos to pertain to the upkeep of a Facebook page, and that I wanted a page that solely referenced the confrontations that happen using social networking, but besides these two things everything else was fair game. I had taken a bunch of pictures over the weekend of my family doing various poses and whatnot just trying to make sure I had enough to do something, but in the end it worked out pretty well.

(Thoughts During)

The first picture, as I mentioned before, pertains to the upkeep of a Facebook page. You can see me reaching out of the profile picture trying to change my status, while my sister is walking away with the name at the top of the page. My cousins also in the bottom corner adjusting his photo. I was really excited to get to work on the second photo, just because Facebook confrontations are a pet peeve of mine. I was thinking of what the most common confrontation I see on Facebook is and then decided that the photo would have more of a political theme. In the photo, you'll notice the symbols for the democrat and republican parties fighting it out, while various soldiers are stationed around the page. Although socializing is a fairly large part of social networking, It took me a while to even think of it for the theme of the third picture. In this photo, I have people chatting around the page, and I also added a women walking through the door that seems to lead from one Facebook page to another. 

(Thoughts After)

Looking back at all three photos, I'm satisfied with the results. My favorite of the three is probably the confrontation themed one, only because it's one of the only things I think about when I think "social networking." I also really liked how the woman walking through the door in picture three turned out. In my opinion, It really looks like it fits into the page, and you can notice, in her background, she is walking out of another Facebook page. I wish I could have added her to another page, walking out of it, but unfortunately didn't have a photo like that. I didn't realize when I was starting out how difficult it would be to incorporate three dimensional objects into a two dimensional world. It would of been a lot easier if I would have taken the photos straight on rather than the slight downward angle they all had. I wish I could have made everything blend into the pages a little more. But hey, I like how it all turned out.