College Admissions Essay: My Photography As A Career

When I was 14, my mother took my family to Yellowstone National Park and Wildlife Reserve in Wyoming for a family road trip before I entered High School. There, I was enthralled by some of most beautiful landscapes in America. I wanted to capture them all on my tiny iPhone camera! For a while, I was satisfied with the pictures I took on my phone,however, that was before I learned that there was so much more to photography than just pointing and shooting. There were angles, lighting, aperture, exposure, and other visual rules to be accounted for. My mother has an old DSLR, so I'd been exposed to more advanced digital cameras. It's funny, she never really took the camera off of automatic mode, so she essentially had an expensive point and shoot.
It wasn't until recently that I thought about what it would be like as the photographer. It's no secret that everyone loves a good picture of themselves, and the prospect of capturing perfect moments and picturesque scenery for other people's enjoyment and my own is super exciting. I've actually recently started photographing musicals for the DSM Academy and the actor's and parents seem to enjoy them. I feel as if my years of theater work have helped me in show business photography, since I know how to work with actors. Photography is something that I've found makes me really happy, it's relaxing, and it's something that I can constantly revisit when I feel down. One of my favorite parts is how my pictures can reflect my mood. With the help of photo editing software, I can make them light and I can make them dark, I can basically do whatever I want with them. My pictures are like a blank canvas that I can manipulate at will to make something greater than before. The excitement that comes from photographing people and things, and being able to show my mom and dad something that I've created, is incomparable to anything that I've experienced in my