Observation Assignment

OBSERVATION ASSIGNMENT

For my observation assignment, I observed a photography class that my friend was taking in one of the nearby portables, No. 5. to be exact. When I entered the portable, the first thing that I noticed was that it was very dark. The lights were off and it was very cramped inside. The air conditioner seemed to be working, which was very nice and unexpected.  There was a student near the front making his presentation over the different techniques photographers use. The student up front had taken several photos prior to the class, and had organized and labeled them in his presentation, this was the assignment that had been assigned in the previous class. The student was graded on how good of a picture a photo was and how well it encapsulated the photography value currently being shown. I had a hard time finding the teacher; she wasn't sitting at her desk. Instead, she was sitting along with the students, listening to the presentation and making comments on it. The class was very casual, and there weren't any taboos about speaking out of turn or raising your hand. I noticed that the teacher liked the color red more than other colors, and it showed in how the portable was decorated, with red font displaying motivational phrases along the walls. I didn't smell much of anything, which I suppose is a good quality for a class to have, you can not please everybody with some strong perfume, but you can make sure that no one will be uncomfortable due to the smell. The class has a certain relaxed feel to it; it really seems that you would learn something that would actually interest someone, rather than the memorization of trivia some other classes are. They talked about horizontal lines, perspective, patterns and how all of these things made the viewer of the photo feel, and why these unquantifiable qualities were so important to the average amateur photographer. I was almost sorry that I had to leave so soon, and I wished I could be there to see the end of my friend's presentation, but sadly, lunch approached, and I needed to return my notes to my backpack so I could later condense them into this paper. Overall, I highly recommend any aspiring artists that are not very good at painting to go to this class. 8/10