January 25, 2022

Photography 12 Portfolio

It’s been another semester of Photography for me. Although I had my doubts at the start of the course, I managed to rekindle and even challenge myself to improve my skills. Looking back, I still follow my previous philosophy where I strive to make art that incites emotion and intrigue within the viewer and artist themselves. However, I believe that I have grown to expand this philosophy even further.

To create art is to breathe life into something that would otherwise be considered dull. A tree, landscape, or person can be mundane as is, but an artist can go beyond that. They can send a message, instill emotions, or simply awe the viewer through thoughtful composition and execution. The joy of creation is a feeling every person must experience, and an artist has the privilege of doing so on a frequent basis. Again, I may not intend on pursuing Photography in the future, but I intend on pursuing the arts in one form or another.

 

Color Triptych 

HDR

HDR

Photoshop Fun

HighLow

HighLow

Shadows, Silhouettes, Reflections

Shadows, Silhouettes, ReflectionsShadows, Silhouettes, Reflections

Light Painting

Film Photography

  1. What part of your finished portfolio did you find most successful and why?
    – I would say my Photoshop Fun was the most successful. I managed to learn and create a photo that appealed to one of my favorite pieces of media while challenging myself to delve further into Photoshop.
  2. What part of your finished portfolio did you find least successful and why?
    – I think my film photos were the least successful, because I was sick for half a week that was meant to help develop other people’s photos alongside my own, so I barely had time to create quality or even properly developed photos.
  3. If you had the time, what project would you like to redo and why?
    – I would redo my light painting photos, I felt like I rushed them and didn’t have the time to properly plan out and create a work I was proud of. Considering the complexity of using light as a subject I would need more time to plan out and execute another retake.
  4. Any last thoughts?
    – I had doubts entering this course again, but I feel like this has spawned some of the best works I have ever done. I now believe that taking this course for Grade 12 was the right choice.
November 25, 2018

TOKTWD 2018

Host Name: Blessing De Jesus

Relationship: Mother

  1. Job Title: Area Supply Attendant

 

  1. Job Description:

Performs tasks such as unpacking, checking, storing and distributing supplies to user units and service areas according to established procedures. Ensures established quotas of medical, surgical and other supplies are maintained on the user units. Monitors supply usage in each service unit, creates requisitions, reorganize label shelves and sections in user units. Keeps inventory organized and restock shelves, opens boxes, rotates stocks and maintains inventory.

 

  1. Qualifications:

 

Education: Grade 12, +1 year of recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

 

Skills and Abilities:

  1. a) Ability to organize work
  2. b) Ability to deal with a variety of contacts
  3. c) Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing
  4. d) Physical ability to perform the duties of the position
  5. e) Ability to operate related equipment

 

  1. Personal Qualities
  2. Hardworking, dedicated, motivated, patient.

 

  1. Some of the things I like about this job:

Good teamwork, good management, coworkers are very helpful, respectful, and supportive, great place to work.

 

  1. Some of the things I dislike about this job:

Fast pace, catching up to finish on time, lots of walking, especially when assigned to the mail room, delivering mail around the whole hospital

Student Reflection

  1. What did I like about this job?
  2. A) It requires organization of logistics and supplies, and as someone who likes to clean up and organize things this is something that I can do.

 

  1. B) Since it’s simply just organization, I won’t need to exert as much energy to do work, this is important since I may still have health issues up to now, and I prefer not to exert too much effort to make a living off of

 

  1. C) I won’t need to interact with other people that often other than my colleagues, this is good since I dislike jobs like waiters, cashiers etc.

 

  1. What do I dislike about this job?
  2. It’s extremely boring, there’s nothing else interesting about the job other than fixing up supplies.

 

  1. It’s monotonous, it will end up getting less and less enjoyable as time goes on.

 

  1. It doesn’t play to my strengths, I really like writing and creating stories, but I can’t take advantage of that in a job like this.

 

  1. Is this the job for me?

 

Frankly, no, the medical job runs in my family, my father is a CEO of a company that sells medical equipment, my mother used to be a nurse before she moved here (she still has a hospital related job) and my sister is studying to become a doctor, I seem to be the only one in the family who won’t be pursuing any medicine related professions, I am considering being a lawyer, but writing and creating stories are what I enjoy the most aside from gaming, I may even decide to become a videogame story writer, but after TOKTWD, medicine just isn’t for me.

 

  1. Explain the value of the TOKTW experience in relation to your ideas about your post-secondary (after high school) plans (education? training? travel? work?)

 

I think this experience is crucial for me to narrow down what job profession I want to have, and in turn my respective school courses. I may get into the writing industry and gaming industry, I may want to take literature and history related courses since they are essential to creating both stories set in reality and in fiction. I think working as an independent author would be too daunting, so I’ll instead work alongside others in creating movies, games, shows, etc.