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  SAWYER'S TYPING...     This week I spent my time working on a 'portal assignment'. It took me a while to think of a concept that I felt happy with that I could also execute. I started with the idea of something uncanny and unsettling into something more whimsical. I struggled to find pictures that really captured what I was thinking about. Eventually, I decided to go with something more normal, a convenience store. I found one that still had a slightly uncanny feeling and I used underwater pictures as my more "whimsical" side. The portals I chose, which were just a picture of a mirror that had lights that seemed to continuously disappear into itself, were a little more basic than what I wanted. I intended to make the tops of the fidgets look like a screen with words displayed, but I couldn't figure out what effects, fonts, colors, shading, etc would make that vision come to life. I ended up with something more simplified but I think it still held my core ide...

  SAWYER'S TYPING...      It's been a minute since I updated this blog. I missed last week's blog post because of some family things but this week I'm back and feeling a lot more motivated when it comes to my work and schooling. This week we mainly focused on photography. We dived into the different styles and concepts in photography, such as fine art and documentary photography. I've taken a photography class in the past and absolutely loved it. I continue to use what I learned in that class till this day whether I'm taking photos with my DSLR camera or with my phone. It was really nice to go through and learn more about the stylized side of photography rather than the technical side. Some of my favorite photos to take are nature photos or candid photos of my friends or events that I've been to.      This week's assignment was a video portfolio essentially. We had to select a photo for 8 different photography categories. Fine art portraiture, conceptu...