Sharing portfolios (1)

Language students at Universidad Central have the opportunity to practice their language skills by writing portfolios. Last August, first and second semester students wrote their perceptions about the photograph exhibition at UCentral. Students wrote a first draft, then teachers proofread and provided some feedback, finally students wrote a final draft. These portfolios were the first ones of a series of papers students have been writing during the semester.
Our blog today has the first paper some of these students wrote. At the end of the semester other portfolios will be shared so that our readers can see the improvement in this skill (writing. There may be some mistakes which have been addressed in each class.

Portfolio1

By. CAMPOS SAENZ
Central University had a photographic exhibition displaying approximately 33 pictures and 10 photographers. Some photographers were: Oscar Silva, Andres Diaz, Sergio A Medina, Alexander Vela, Lorena Urzola and Natalia Suarez. Some themes were: the children, the grandparents and the city.
The pictures that attracted my attention were: “Abuelos calle” by Alexander Vela, “Instantes de vida” by Sergio Medina and “Limpieza social” by Andres Diaz.The pictures were excellent and time of the exhibition.
I don`t like the time and the place, the place should be for example, “el Malecon”.

Central University had a photographic exhibition displaying approximately 33 pictures and 10 photographers. Some photographers were: Oscar Silva, Andres Diaz, Sergio A Medina, Alexander Vela, Lorena Urzola and Natalia Suarez. Some themes were: the children, the grandparents and the city.
The pictures that attracted my attention were: “Abuelos calle” by Alexander Vela, “Instantes de vida” by Sergio Medina and “Limpieza social” by Andres Diaz.The pictures were excellent and time of the exhibition.
I don`t like the time and the place, the place should be for example, “el Malecon”.


PORTFOLIO 2

By Sierra Páez

The exhibition began at 12:00 o’clock at the university. There were so many photographers such as Gerardo Botero, Johanna Bohorquez, Alfredo Morales, Maribel Murcia, Diego Sandoval, Mariana Guerrero, Camilo Herrera, Yessid Rojas, etc.; The Central themes were the childhood, old age. There were thirty three pictures.

In general my favourite pictures were: “Gabriela” and “Andrés Diaz”. They are beautiful and amazing; my suggestion is to change the size of photos because some pictures were small.

I think that the exhibition could be better.Some pictures were small and the place was noisy for this activity.


Photography
By. Guauque Dueñas

Central University, for two weeks had approximately 10 photographers, some of them were:

 Andres Diaz
 Sergio A. Medina.
 Oscar Silva.
 Alexander Vela
 Natalie Suarez.

Some central themes of the exhibition were: the children, the city, the nation, and the grandparents. In the exhibition there were approximately 33 photographs.

The most important highlight was the social subject and the picture that attracted my attention was “Limpieza Social” by Andres Diaz. For the exhibit I would like to change the location, the advertising and organization.

The exhibition is very good, but I prefer more advertising, better location and call more photographers and then take it to other places.

Photo Exhibition Review
By. Rojas Ávila

The past 14 of August I was in a photo exhibition at Central University. The photographers were Gerardo Botero, Johana Bohorquez, Maribel Murcia, William Castro and others. The central themes of the exhibition were kids, old people, and Indian people. There were a number of approximately 70 photos.

The photos of the kids that I saw was what I liked the most. The photographers are Vladimir Cordero, Diego Sandoval, Tatiana Sabogal and i liked too “Social Clean” by Andres Diaz.
I think one aspect to improve was the presentation of the photos, because some are dirty and written in pencil. The location of the exhibition was really good, but the illumination wasn’t the appropriate for that kind of cultural exhibition.

Finally the photos were very good, but the presentation of the photos was not. This type of exhibition helps to increase culture and people get interest in this kind of stuff rather than been on msn or drinking.

ADDED VALUES
By. GUERRERO MORENO
The photographic exhibition arises with the motive of exposing the works of the students who are in basic photography or in advertising photography; this exhibition is a permanent event of the Season of Art of the Central University, which is carried out from August three until August fourteen, the photos are exhibited in the corridors or the most frequent sites where the students and the guests are.
The central topics of this exhibition are the portrait, where they prove to be to us children, elders and aborigens, which express different emotional and daily experiences of his diary to live, another topic is that of landscapes, demonstrating natural beauty to the maximum and also another topic is that of the urban style showing an activity in the sport of the skaters, This exhibition has more or less fifty photos of the already mentioned topics.
The photos that I liked were some that base on the experiences of a few children and girls, where they express innocence and happiness, the topic of these photos is entitled to survive and they were taken by Jhoana Báez; other photos that I liked are some that show the action of the skaters in his table; since the photographer I plug the precise instant, achieving a so called technology frozen.
On having done an evaluation of the photographic exhibition, my recommendations are the following ones: In relation of the presentation of the photos to the public, some they are with a bit of dirt as the walls in which they are exhibited, some of the photos have low resolution in the image, and some of them exceed the digital retouch and others present bad composition and they were not in perfect conditions of cleanliness to show to a public.


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