Nicole+T's+OpEd+Article

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Reason number one Mr. Geib should let me into Bioethics. I talk about it in my mudrakers assignment. I would really like to be in that class. Really badly, anyways on to the point. media type="file" key="nicholet-muckraker-2011.mp3" width="240" height="20" ="**//Photography//**."=

by Nicole T
And now we wait. The photos have been taken. 72 in the last 20 minutes of the flowers that inhavit my backyard. Now here comes the fun of the computer taking 30 minutes to shove in the hundreds of photos I took this weekend at the robotics tournament into its brain. 653 new photos to add, maybe 300 already on it from times before. I guess it is my fault for never deleting photos off the usb card after I put the photos onto the home board, I should put them on the laptop too... Ah there now let me choose one for you. I took this photo outside a few minutes ago, special for you, my history class and English class. My camera is no point and shoot. Low aperture-I really like low aperture, medium shudder speed, ISO of 300 or abouts, point, set, focus, shoot. Now I am not that much of a hipster to be rocking a film camera, because I like the training wheels of digital, but I find the training wheels are all people are relying on these days. Which brings me to the problem I wish to share with all of you today... my fear of photoshop becoming the norm, and only point and shooting being the way. I did not touch up this photo, and I don't touch up any photos unless I want them to be in black and white, but I find everyone uses photoshop to fix things, things that don't need to be fixed, things that can be easily done on a camera and not on a computer. That is why I fear taking the photography class at Foothill Technology High School, that is why Mr. Geib I would really like you to take me into your Bioethics class. I don't doubt that Mr. Crouch knows his craft, he has a wonderful eye for the art he chooses around his classroom. I just rather not be taught how to use photoshop, I would like to be taught how to take photos. Which it seems the normal person isn't being taught, nor is interested in.

I think that instant gratification of technology is to blame, digital photography is to be blamed. What should be a gate way to perfect the art of taking a picture is becoming just the way. What used to be an art of skill, to be able to capture the life of later days is just a myspace photo. I wish to see people changing their ways. I find that people almost take too much pride in their ability to take "photos". I understand you have a camera, I understand that you take pictures, but does not mean I want to see your grand "Photography" album all over facebook with your mediocrity at applying flitters. What is worse is being tagged in the album of ill repute. It is the ego saying stroke me, stroke me. When really what is there to be stroked. Not a myspace photo were your friends and you look cute, cute, not a bably exposed photo and not a scepda flitter.