{"id":248,"date":"2024-12-10T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dulce.matmcc.org\/creative-journal\/?p=248"},"modified":"2024-12-11T17:35:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T01:35:14","slug":"writing-the-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dulce.matmcc.org\/creative-journal\/writing-the-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing The Content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d say that the most challenging part of this website was creating the written content for the Case Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was difficult for a few reasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phone Or Photoshop?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the photos on my portfolio are from before I had access to Photoshop. They were from Covid Era so all I had was my phone. Now, I had Photoshop to edit and watermark them, so it brought up the question of: Do I explain how I edited the photos on my phone or in Photoshop? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of this, I began writing content for the case studies in the &#8220;Process&#8221; category because the most important part was more how I set up the items to take the photo and less what I did to make the photograph look better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I realized, after talking to one of my classmates, that photographers use filters all the time and that the message of my portfolio is that you don&#8217;t need expensive equipment to take great photos\u2014nearly my entire portfolio is proof of that, so I decided to explain how to achieve the effect I did in my photos both on a phone and in Photoshop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photos Taken A Long Time Ago<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of my photos were taken years ago. I didn&#8217;t know that it would&#8217;ve been helpful to future me to keep a log of any edits I made whether that be names of filters or the exact number of brightness increased. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alas, I kept no record except being able to click on edited photos and look at the adjustments. However, the photos in the &#8220;Editing&#8221; category had a special process done to them. I had trouble remembering what exactly I had done to create that effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dulce.matmcc.org\/photography\/2024\/12\/05\/black-white\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dulce.matmcc.org\/photography\/2024\/12\/05\/black-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black &amp; White,<\/a>&#8221; the desaturated look was not achieved by just removing the saturation. The inside of the flowers was a darker color and it&#8217;d be reflected in a desaturated version. I had to play around with the settings again to figure out what I had done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building On Each Other<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I believed that I was supposed to keep the explanations strictly to phone editing or Photoshop, but I decided to combine them. Most of my photos were edited on my phone after I originally and then taken into Photoshop years later to prepare them for the web. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlighting this process within Case Studies was important because it showcased an extra step that photographers need to take sometimes after taking a photo. 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