1. Jordyn Glenn
Mrs. Tillery
18 April 2012
Senior Project
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even if the people in it
do”. The famous Andy Warhol summed it all up with his quote. Hi, I’m Jordyn Glenn
and I have been passionate about photography for several years now so it was a natural
selection for me to pick this topic for my senior project. I hope you all enjoy the photos I
have taken both for fun and for profit over the past year as much as I enjoyed taking
them.
While conducting research on photography, I realized that I could talk to you
about the mechanics of taking photos or how critical your camera choice or lighting
might be for different types of photographs you might take, but instead I choose to
research the human element of photography and how it makes the viewer feel. It is said
that “Through photographs, we preserve history - our child's first steps, a decaying
landscape, or rare and endangered animals.” My research taught me that photography can
be used for many different reasons, such as expressing oneself or to show people what is
going on half way around the world. I was also taught that photography hasn’t been
around forever, but that did not stop people from always trying to find a way to capture a
certain moment. Photography is not just a word you can look up in a dictionary and
understand, you have to actually experience it.

2. My product is a photo book showcasing some of my personal favorites taken
throughout the year. It was difficult deciding on a final product because there are so many
creative ways that I could display the photographs I selected. In the end, I decided to
choose a photo book or album, because even after I’m finished with senior boards, the
book is something I’ll be able to look back on and keep forever. In the years to come I’ll
be able to compare those recently taken, to my old ones, and hopefully see progress. Each
picture I have taken over this past year holds a special memory for me that I never want
to forget, and these pictures will help me to remember those memories. I know when I
look at these photos in the future I will be able to recall not only how I felt while taking
these pictures but will also remember the mood, atmosphere or general feeling of the
people in them.
In order to create my finished product I first had to take all of my photos. I then
had to choose which ones were my favorites by narrowing it down. I had taken over a
thousand photos this year so the selection process was the hardest. Once I had finally
decided I had to edit and make sure each photo looked its absolute best. I then had to
transfer all of those photos onto a thumb drive and take it into Walgreens and create my
own photography book.
My peer facilitator was Mrs. Estapa. She is the Broadcast and Video Production
here at Creekview. I chose Mrs. Estapa because I have taken her class for the past two
years and she is gifted with everything that has to do with photography and technology.
She knows everything there is to know about capturing a good photograph and how to
edit. She helped me when I faced technological problems and gave me advice on how to
work around it and assured me that I’m not the only one who has had these issues.

3. These issues that I faced include problems such as losing photos, having my
iPhoto deleted off of my computer, camera malfunctions, and not being able to capture
the image that I had in my mind. When photos got deleted off of my computer and
memory card, luckily I had some of them uploaded onto the internet where I could resave
them. Even though I was able to recover them, I had lost the quality of the photo. Camera
malfunctions in photography are inevitable, I just had to turn it off, take the battery out
for a while, and hope for the best. There were times when my flash would stop working, I
had to let it rest and cool down for a few minutes, and then I was able to continue taking
photos.
This project has taught me that photography is my passion and I would love to
pursue it in the future. People underestimate just how difficult taking photos can be. It’s
so much more than just “point and click”. It is all about capturing a certain moment in
time. Photography is my way of expressing myself and the senior project has allowed me
to do that all year long. I would love to either major or minor in photo journalism next
year at the University of Tennessee then hopefully I’ll be able to find a career or even a
job on the side that involves photography.
Next time you ask yourself if photography is important, just think about all of
your family photo albums. You wouldn’t have those memories if you wouldn’t have
taken the photograph. Thank you for your time.