My Capstone Essay On Humanism
In addition to my Capstone essay on humanism, I will cast out my ideas on humanism through the use of photography as well. Photography has long been a passion of mine and is the best way for me to express how I feel and what I see about humanity through my photos. I began learning about photography and using my first camera in middle school and have since then used photos for projects, fun, and for my very own portfolio website and Instagram I have created. Although I mostly like to photograph animals or nature, photographing people is a new experience that I still work on to conquer to the composition aspect of it.
Photography is a creative form of art that can articulate all of the different aspects of humans. It shows our true colors, hobbies, and expressions. A photograph can also be interpreted with over a thousand words as just one human can. Looking at a photo allows someone to judge another person based on their appearance or expression rather than letting the person in the photograph speak for themselves. Aside from the emotions or expressions given off by a model in a photograph, the person looking at the photo and their interpretation of the person in the photo also says a lot about humanity in this way. Because we judge people. …show more content…
This is how people are in their normal habitat, natural, and in my opinion the best way to convey ideas about humanism because it is candid. I will not ask people to pose or act a certain way, because that is not what humanism is about. I will combine a few photos into a small album. I will add titles to each of the photographs, but I do not want to write captions under each photo of where, why, or how it was taken, because I want the person who looks at the photo album to ponder on this themselves until they read the essay and I further describe the intentions behind each
Photography is a creative form of art that can articulate all of the different aspects of humans. It shows our true colors, hobbies, and expressions. A photograph can also be interpreted with over a thousand words as just one human can. Looking at a photo allows someone to judge another person based on their appearance or expression rather than letting the person in the photograph speak for themselves. Aside from the emotions or expressions given off by a model in a photograph, the person looking at the photo and their interpretation of the person in the photo also says a lot about humanity in this way. Because we judge people. …show more content…
This is how people are in their normal habitat, natural, and in my opinion the best way to convey ideas about humanism because it is candid. I will not ask people to pose or act a certain way, because that is not what humanism is about. I will combine a few photos into a small album. I will add titles to each of the photographs, but I do not want to write captions under each photo of where, why, or how it was taken, because I want the person who looks at the photo album to ponder on this themselves until they read the essay and I further describe the intentions behind each