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2021/4/21

    Today we went outside the classroom to take photos of the school. The goal was to make people want to come to TGUISS by looking at our pictures. I took a photo in the "nakaniwa" which is the space surrounded by the west building. It is a place where students can hang around and eat lunch, talk, or take rests. I chose this place because I wanted the school to have a welcoming and comfortable image. I had three of my classmates to be in the picture. I had them sit down facing each other, I told them to look like they are having fun. This way I could show the audience that the students in TGUISS get along well and it looks like they are having a good time in school. Even though there weren't any other students in the "nakaniwa", I took the picture so that the dead space won't show so the audience will not know that the picture was staged. 

    This activity was very interesting to me because when I came to this school I was fooled by the pictures on the school website as well. The picture made the grass and the benches behind the media center look so much better than reality. To prevent getting fooled by these types of images I want to try not to trust everything I see.

    We also talked about our bio images today. These bio images must fit the content of the bio, and must fit the image you want people to have for yourself. A technique we can use is remove background, or make the background white so it would float on the white document. We could also use a picture where you are doing something and make the back in boke. 

    My bio picture was from the front and is very bland. For my new bio picture I want to take it with an angle and only focus on me. For now I would remove the background of my bio image.




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