Capstone Reflection.

I had a wonderful time not only creating this ePortfolio, which I believe will be hugely helpful to me in the future, but learning skills I believe will be necessary as business moves with technology, as it always has. Making this ePortfolio has helped me to organize my skill set, recognize what I have accomplished and more importantly, what I still need to accomplish and work on.

I believe that the skills I have listed here will not only come in handy for any company I work for, but prove to be a true asset along with my tenacity and problem solving skills. Something I have learned about myself is that although I am young, I have yet to come across a problem or technological advancement I couldn't solve with a little time and clever thinking.

One of the hardest challenges for me in my projects was not always being able to conquer every aspect of the project I was faced with, and having to deal with the technological glitches that seem to pop up from time to time, but realizing that you have to let go a little control when technology takes a hand. Then sometimes, there were so many great options to take with my projects, it's hard to know exactly what you want and not get distracted playing with every one of the million ideas at my fingertips.

Photography in New Media.

 
I really had fun using iMovie. I'd used it once before a few years ago, but with a friend who was in the TV Production class in my high school, so I didn't really get to understand the finer points of constructing a video.

I would probably say that iMovie is the application I will use the most in the future. It was easy to use, although it was really difficult to upload some of the videos from my camera, and I never figured out why it would accept some and not others, but it ended up working the way I wanted. I had a lot of fun with iMovie, and I will definitely utilize it in the future. I love how easy it is to use media from iTunes and iPhoto.

Comm 486 video by Courtney Eckerle is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/abby-bird/.

iMovie, Project 5 Prep.

Form: Movie created on Mac's iMovie application 
Audience: Photographers and others interested in the effects of photoshop and new media on the art of photography.
Topic:Discuss the changes, good and bad which have come with the infiltration and reliance of photography today on the "gifts" of new media.
Purpose: To inform, to ask a question which provokes thought.

Mindmap:

For a "flowchart" of sorts, I decided to create a power point presentation instead, as I believed that would help me more, and give me a more concrete idea of the direction my movie would take, and make the transition easier. I've uploaded it to slide share.

Backup of photography

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Script:
 Some memories are important to capture... and some, are just for fun. Some cameras can even video a moment to preserve it forever.

In photography in new media, we're going to be looking at the effect new technology such as photoshop has had on photography.

But with all the new media available today, when does a camera stop being a camera, and a photograph stop being a photograph, and become something else entirely?

This is a question that renowned photographer Elliott Erwitt asks. Born in Paris in 1928,  Erwitt traveled the world from a young age.

In my own representations of Erwitt's work, you can see his talent doesn't rely on the crutch photoshop can sometimes be. He    is a photography purist, and had frequently expressed his distaste for digital manipulation in photography, believing that a moment captured should stay pure and un-photoshopped.
   
"Digital manipulation kills photography, it is enemy number one," said Erwitt. Was he right?

Where does the new technology of digital media fit into the world of photography?

Without photoshop, this picture wouldn't be possible.

What would this girl even look like?

With Picnik and Photoshop it's becoming easier than ever to manipulate photographs. Creative Commons and Flickr are poised to do for photography what YouTube did for video sharing.

What will photography mean in the future?

POB Final Product!

For some reason I can't get the audio to embed with it, so click this link to check out my screencast!

POB

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POB Slidecast.

FATP
Form: Slidecast
Audience: Photographers, those curious about social media's impact on photography.
Topic: Photography and social media- impact on the profession.
Purpose: To inform on the changes in photography, dangers of becoming too reliant on digital manipulation. Possibly persuade against too much reliance on digitial media.

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Script:
Welcome everyone to my first podcast, on July 7th 2010. I’m your host, Courtney. I’m currently a junior at St. Mary’s College in Indiana, where I am a English Literature and Communications major with a film studies minor.  and the title of today’s show is “protect our beach” , a movement born through social media.

Erin started for her family, lived at the beach her whole life, raising two young kids here, hated the idea of oil coming to our beach, needed to do something.

She really didn’t do much to start the group, within two weeks she had over 100 followers, had an event organized.

Used conventional methods, contacted city halls, updated people on social media, combined.

Was able to organize her event using conventional and social media methods, not even a week beforehand, contacted businesses, happy to help.

Talking to people in person and using social media, able to make it a success.

By combining it, she was able to make it a success, would not have been able to make it a success if she used social media alone.

Combined to make super movement to reach anyone, even people who don’t use the internet, and people who are very active on the internet.

Able to create this wonderful way for people to get together in the community, collaborate.

Thanks to everyone for tuning in, and thanks to all the Creative Commons artists who lent their work.

REFLECTIONS:
With this project I feel like I was able to better take advantage of mindmapping, since this project was looser than the last, and I wasn't quite sure where I was going with it. I wanted to say things that I really couldn't fit into my plain screen cast, and able to better able to express myself through audio.

I really enjoyed this process, because honestly I have always wondered how to use GarageBand and always been too lazy to really learn it. So this was a great project for me, and something I'm sure I will use in the future. GarageBand was so easy to use, it was a cinch once I took the time to really read the "How to" that was up on the Comm website.