P1: Portrait

Miserable Hospital Stay
Tags: mom,hospital,sad

My portrait photo was of my mom and her recent hospital stay. I focused in on her face because I felt you could see how she felt about what was happening to her. I was very amazed how this picture turned out. I have always thought the bigger more expensive cameras took better pictures. However, I have discovered it is the editing that can really make a difference. I was very lucky that my mom let me take this picture. She hates pictures of herself.
My original picture had color but my mom looked “washed” out. I took the picture from a distance and cropped it around her face. I then played with the colors and posted it to my photo blog. My group members made many suggestions and I played around with it until I got the picture that you see above. My group members suggested changing it to black and white and adjusting the color. The picture that you see is the result of all the changes.
As a kindergarten teacher, I could use pictures like these to help improve inferencing skills. Kindergarten children could write about how they think the person feels or what they believed happened to them. This is a very difficult skill for kindergarten students but with authentic pictures and a lot of practice over time I believe they could come up with some interesting stories. It would be interesting to see how many different stories that they could come up with one picture. I can’t wait to see.