I have always been an enthusiast for photography but have never really taken the time to try it for myself until the Fall, 2011 semester at BYU-Idaho. Photography is a lot of fun and I have found that I have an eye for good imagery. My favorite lens to use for a lot of my photographs is a telephoto lens which gives my photos a nice bokeh effect to the background of my subjects. Bokeh is the blur you see in an image that has part of it out of focus. If you look at some of my photos you can see the bokeh and the pleasing aspect it gives to the photograph.
For my class this year, I borrowed my brothers Nikon D5000 Digital SLR camera. I was thankful he was so generous to give it up for a few months. Toward the end of the semester, my brother suprised me for my birthday saying, he was so impressed with my photography that he wanted me to keep doing it and he gave his camera to me, which I am deeply greatful. My photography teacher also had some very nice things to say to me by saying, You are one of the few students who can shoot and edit equally well. Your work this entire semester has been examplary.
One of the most valuable things I learned this semester is seperating design from HTML. HTML has been designated to define elements and what content they hold, not what the content looks like; that's what css is for. I've learned that it is important to structure code so that it is visible to search engines. Images are not always visible to search engines so text-replacement is a great way to keep the content visible, yet style the content with an image.
Another valueable thing I learned in this semester is the importance of dynamic code. We covered PHP this semester which really helps to lessen the coding process, allowing different content to be populated from the same variable. Loops can iterate through arrays which are assigned to these variables. An array is a container that can hold a lot of different data. This is beneficial for organization and code dynamics. These things will really help me in the future to make great design and dynamic code.
