About Photograph It!
Mission Statement: Helping others embark on their journey to make photography a hobby. We hope this website has aided you on your journey to pursue photography, a hobby Photograph It's team fully believes will enhance your life.
Additional Resources
- An amazing site for beginners, photographylife.com has all the basics and much more! Filled with a plethora of helpful resources, it is a perfect site for when you are stuck or want to read more.
- With an insightful youtube channel for beginners, Nigel Danson has all the basics and offers important tips to improving your photography. He also has helpful photo editing tricks in his videos as well.See his Youtube Page
- In addition, all resources in the Content Citations section would also be great sites to further explore!
About the Author
Past and Current Coding Classes
- AP Computer Science (Current Class at School)
- Girls Who Code Web Design, Data Science, and Cybersecurity Self-Paced Tracks (Summer 2023)
- Responsive Web Design on freeCodeCamp (Self-Taught)
- HTML, CSS, and Javascript on Codecademy (Self-Taught)
My Certifications:
My 10 Week Journey in Photography
- Week 1: Decision to Pursue Photography and gathering supplies
- Weeks 2-3: Watching Professionals Explain Photography Concepts
- Weeks 4-6: Perfecting the Basics(Aperture, Shutter Speed, ISO and the basics of composition)
- Weeks 7-8: Exploring the Different Types of Photography/ Photographing different subjects
- Weeks 9-10: Mastering the basics and learning photo editing skills
Reflection: I had a lot of fun taking the pictures and learning more about photography. In addition, pursuing photography as a hobby also allowed me to appreciate photographs and look past the exterior. Now, when I look at pictures, I try to took at the author's intent ask push my self to think about the techniques he or she may have used and why. I then try to incorporate my findings into my next photograph.
Image and Video Citations
- All Images in the History of Photography Slideshow(Home Page): https://contrastly.com/the-evolution-of-photography/
- Astrophotography Image in the Types of Photography Slideshow: https://pixabay.com/photos/mountains-milkyway-landscape-5173728/
- Street photography Image in the Types of Photography Slideshow(Impacts Page): https://pixabay.com/photos/pedestrians-people-busy-movement-400811/
- Image Under Make a Difference(Impacts Page): https://progressiveeraproject.blogspot.com/2014/12/beginning-of-meat-packing-industry.html
- Images corresponding to the different articles on the Impacts Page are sourced from the host article itself and are not attributed to Photograph It! in any way.
- Video(Basics Page): All media was taken by Photograph It!, but the video was compiled through KineMaster, a video editing software. The automated voice was generated through www.ttsmaker.com
- All other images are taken or drawn by Photograph It! or its author.
Note: Some of these images may have been edited using free resources such as: ibisPaint, VSCO, the photos app, Snapseed etc.
Code Citations
All sources referenced for coding the website came from one of the four sources below:
- W3 Schools (to look up other options for css properties that I already knew existed) and for the :visited property
- Past/Present Coding Projects that were completely coded by me (Mainly for the Nav Bar to save time)
- Notes that I took while I was learning CSS, or Javascript
- https://css-tricks.com/fixed-headers-and-jump-links-the-solution-is-scroll-margin-top/ for the scroll-margin-top property (used on every page) to automatically put a margin for each link in the sub-navigation.
- All HTML was coded by me
Content Citations
All words was written by me (not plagiarized), but some of the information came from the external sources cited below:
Home Page
- History of the Photograph Slideshow(Home Page) information came from, https://contrastly.com/the-evolution-of-photography/ but were reworded and compiled by the author.
Impacts Page
- Information on the slideshow on types of photography came from are on the last slide of the slideshow
- List of reasons why photography should be pursued came from https://expertphotography.com/
- Content(including the article titles that appear on Photograph It!'s pages) from the different articles on the Impacts Page are sourced from the host article itself and are not attributed to Photograph It! in any way.
Photography Basics Page
Getting Started Page
- List of Supplies: https://www.photoworkout.com/photography-equipment-list-beginners/
About Page
- No external sites used to write any content on this page.