INTRODUCTION
Good day to all. I am Victoria Persad. I'm a student, adventure- seeker, taking risks sort of person, a student, a daughter, a friend, and aspiring photographer. (Just to name a few). Mostly though... I am usually shy.
I attend COSTAATT, College of Science, Technology, and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago. My major is Mass Communications and this particular semester, one of my courses landed me here... Blogging.
The assignment :
Implement a personal development plan based around the use of social media. Use a variety of social media services to assist in achieving your academic, professional or personal goals. Execute your development plan using at least one social media service from four of the categories outlined in class.
Social media can be an avenue of expression or source of information, opportunity and community support. You have a significant level of freedom to decide how each service will contribute to the overall achievement of your objectives.
That being said, I decided that my goal for this project would be to take as many pictures as I can within the time frame of this semester by utilizing research tips and advice from professional photographers, and henceforth apply it to my own captures. Also to the end of the semester, I shall then create a portfolio.
I plan to post when I can, at least twice or three times a week. Updates will be given within that time period and photos that were taken that week, along with any challenges I encountered or lack thereof. I will also post links to other sites in which I used and MAYBE, once or twice record a video.
If u wish to contact me for any reason whatsoever, my email address is as follows:
vicky_m.e_p@hotmail.com
All are free to leave comments. All types of comments are welcomed, even critizising ones. I believe that they would allow me to view the faults that I have not seen before and therefore cause me to become better.
You can also catch me on my different profiles:
Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/#!/victoria.persad.3
Tumblr: http://open-flowerstar.tumblr.com/
Google+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/109702641239775849158/posts
Facebook Fan Page : https://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=hp#!/PhotographyInItsEssence?fref=ts
Enjoy :)
Good start, Vicky! You look like you've put some real thought into this project, and I look forward to your updates.
ReplyDeleteI have a few pointers for you:
- You've linked to your personal Facebook profile. That might not be the best idea. It would be better to create a Fan page to post your work to so that anyone can join without you (or them) having compromise on privacy. It would be easier for them to spread and share your work off a Fan page too.
If you don't want to start a Fan page, you should link to a specific (new) gallery on your current profile, and leave that gallery open to the public. A Fan page would be the better idea, though, especially if you see yourself pursuing photography in the long term.
- If you're using Facebook, Google+ becomes redundant. It doesn't offer much different from Facebook, and much fewer people are active on it.
- I hope you intend to use an image-specific social media platform to display your work. You should display work on your blog and FB as well, but Blogger and Facebook tend to compress and reduce the quality of pictures. A service like Flickr will host your pictures in their entirety.
I'll keep an eye on your work.