MichelleM1267
Speeding Tickets
“Art, speeding through limits, stopping for nothing” -anonymous
I selected this quote after driving home and getting frustrated at someone who passed me on route 99 one day going 15 miles over the speed limit (at which I was driving). I had already started to work on another quote by this time and I knew I would need to reshoot the images I had taken beforehand. Some of the images I had shot beforehand were at an antique store and the items were gone by the time I went back to reshoot, so I adopted this new quote instead. It just seemed perfect at the time. Finding the words was a very difficult process. Some simple words in my original quote such as “that” and “going” proved to be impossible to find anywhere and even after I changed to a simpler quote I still couldn’t find the word “through” at all either. Also, a lot of time when I could find the words they were small and the camera couldn’t focus on them. The letters had to be at least as big as my fist for my camera to focus on them which made getting good images very challenging. One of my few successes was when I realized that I didn’t have to find the entirety of a word. The print of the ending “ing” appears 3 times in my final image because it made it easier to find the root words. I was extremely lucky when I managed to find the word “art” with a comma after it as well because it made sense grammatically. If I were to redo this assignment I would definitely use a camera more able to focus on smaller text because even street signs were barely big enough to focus on. I would also start the assignment at least a week and a half earlier because it required so much time. Finally, I would pay much more attention to where in the frame the word is and what size it is in order to make the words fit together a little better. I did enjoy this assignment, though, overall because it had a cool idea behind it.
Speeding Tickets
“Art, speeding through limits, stopping for nothing” -anonymous
I selected this quote after driving home and getting frustrated at someone who passed me on route 99 one day going 15 miles over the speed limit (at which I was driving). I had already started to work on another quote by this time and I knew I would need to reshoot the images I had taken beforehand. Some of the images I had shot beforehand were at an antique store and the items were gone by the time I went back to reshoot, so I adopted this new quote instead. It just seemed perfect at the time. Finding the words was a very difficult process. Some simple words in my original quote such as “that” and “going” proved to be impossible to find anywhere and even after I changed to a simpler quote I still couldn’t find the word “through” at all either. Also, a lot of time when I could find the words they were small and the camera couldn’t focus on them. The letters had to be at least as big as my fist for my camera to focus on them which made getting good images very challenging. One of my few successes was when I realized that I didn’t have to find the entirety of a word. The print of the ending “ing” appears 3 times in my final image because it made it easier to find the root words. I was extremely lucky when I managed to find the word “art” with a comma after it as well because it made sense grammatically. If I were to redo this assignment I would definitely use a camera more able to focus on smaller text because even street signs were barely big enough to focus on. I would also start the assignment at least a week and a half earlier because it required so much time. Finally, I would pay much more attention to where in the frame the word is and what size it is in order to make the words fit together a little better. I did enjoy this assignment, though, overall because it had a cool idea behind it.