the basics.

Ashley Dawn Parsons

Photography Major.
Junior.
Raised in Tualatin, Oregon.
Currently in Eugene, Oregon.












My goal for this course is to essentially just learn more of the technical aspects that go along with digital photography. So much of my life is centered around making images that I just want to know as much as I can about this medium in terms of technical tactics, aesthetics, creativity, conceptual bounds; all of it. I want to learn how to capture more of what I see through the means of a digital photograph, and make it come alive to the viewer.

A lot of my personal work is primarily digital but I feel like I have a lot of loopholes in my own work when it comes to that digital spectrum we call the editing process. Whether it be incorrect color editing, incorrect sizing while shooting, not knowing how to make a quality digital print, noisy photos, not knowing how to edit in RAW, overexposure, underexposure, etc, I just seem to not know how to fix it. I feel like I'm almost there on a lot of techniques with digital photography, I just have a lot to learn in all of the aspects I listed above. I tend to focus more on the art of taking the photos rather than the aftermath of editing, printing, and showing and I just hope to improve in all of those areas.