Practicing Photography.

Last week in Computer and Technology class, my class learned about some of the elements of photography. Our assignment was to take pictures that demonstrate three of the elements that we learned about. I took three pictures that demonstrate a picture in motion, simplicity, and framing. 

The picture to the left demonstrates a picture in motion. The water falling under the dolphins and how the bodies of the dolphins are curved shows that the dolphins are in the middle of jumping out of the water beneath them.

The picture to the right demonstrates simplicity. If you make sure that the main element is in the center of the picture that you are taking it helps draw the attention of the person looking at your picture. In my picture, I made sure that the goat's head was in the center of the picture because it's the main element and the goat eating the carrot draws attention.

The last picture that I took to demonstrate framing is the picture to the left. The large door frame acts as a frame to the pictures that are hanging on the wall. Framing causes the person looking at the picture to look through the frame where the main element of the picture is usually located.

Piracy Podcast.

Morgan, Lisa, and I created our first Piracy Podcast in our Computer and Technology Class. In our Piracy Podcast, we created the artwork and recorded our own voices to make it. We also made sure that the music we added to our podcast was in the public domain, so we could avoid Copyright Infringement.

In my opinion, I think that downloading music is extremely wrong because it's keeping the artist from not making the money that they should be making. I don't think anyone would want to make music and not get rewarded for their hard word and time. I also think that downloading music is wrong because downloading music and sharing it with your friends is preventing other artists from being noticed which is hurting the entire music industry. Copyright Laws are important and they should exist because the laws make it clear to people that piracy is illegal. I think that piracy is so prevalent in our society because technology is everywhere, so it makes it easier for people to try to get around Copyright Laws.

I'll openly admit that if someone used our podcast as their own that I would be mad because we worked very hard on making sure that we obeyed every single Copyright Law. I know that I'm going to think back on this class every time I'm faced with making the decision whether or not to illegally download music or copyright work that isn't mine. I also know that if I was working hard on making music that I wouldn't want people to illegally download it or illegally share it with their friends because I wouldn't be making the money that I should be.