Self Portrait

In these portraits, though I took them myself, I made an effort to not make it obvious that I was in fact holding the camera while I posed. I think keeping my arms well out of the portrait made it look more than just a self portrait. Though I tried a few photographs with the automatic timer, I found that holding the camera while posing turned out to give better photographs.

Elements of Composition - The Forgotten

These photographs all demonstrate the basic elements of photographay; shape, pattern, texture, light, perspective, and line.

-Perspective

-Texture

-Line-

-Pattern

the pattern in this photograph is not obvious but if you look closely you can see repeating textures, and shapes. -Light

- Shape

Square, Circles

The Golden Rule

What's the Golden Rule to photography? The Rule of Thirds is what it's called. This rule is a guideline in capturing a pleasing photograph. The rule of thirds looks like a large tic-tac-toe grid, and where each two lines intersect is called a power point, this is where a subject is most pleasing in a photograph. Though this is called the Golden Rule, inferring that to make a good photograph you must follow this rule, in times I disagree, besides rules are made to be broken, but in this post I will demonstrate the importance of the Rule of Thirds. In all these photographs, each bell, or christmas ornament intersect a power point, and in doing this create a interesting, and pleasing photograph. Rather than placing this street sign in the middle of the photograph, placing it on one of the vertical "tic-tac-toe" lines it gives a much more interesting, and contrasting photograph.

Aligning Emily's eye with a power point, rather than placing her in the middle, it proves to give great lighting, and makes it a tasteful photograph. Taking a far away photograph of Emily and centering one of her eyes on top of one of the power points, it again gives a totally different look.

When taking this photograph I followed the playing, aligning him with the left vertical line, as he moved right.

Black and White SLR

After developing our film, we get the

first glimpse of our potential photographs on negatives.

We then do test strips for each negative to find which exposure time will create the best photograph.

This wintery photograph was exposed for 4 seconds.

In this photograph! I love the reflection of thefloor, and the contrast the blanket is compared to the chair. This photograph was exposed for only 0.8 seconds.

This photograph has all sorts of textures, from wood, to flowers, to tin. It was exposed for 6 seconds.

I love the depth in this photograph, which was exposed for 2 seconds.

Shape Scavenger Hunt

Star Shape-

Though this star shape is not a natural star shap within a Natural Setting, the shape of the star creates interest, and makes the viewer think about where this star might be found, and in what kind of setting the photographer was in, inorder to capture this image.

S Curve-

The S curves between berries creates unity between the berries.

Y"-

"Y" shapes create depth, and give an indirect route to the subject, which is the leaf in this photograph, you begin by looking at the stem of the tree, and follow the line until you meet the leaf.

Diagonal-

Diagonal lines creates a whimsical feel to this image.

Arcs-

Arcs can cause great emphasis on subjects and create

a pleasing line for the eye follow.

Circle-

The center of the flower creates contrast, and with it's circular shape it draws the eye inward.

Square-

The repeating pattern of squares in this chain link fence creates interest, and dimension in the photograph.

Rectangle-

The different varieties of rectangles in this photograph allows the viewer to look further into the photograph, and leads the eye to the trees in the background.