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Photo #1

 

Objective 3: Composition Techniques

 

1. Rule of Thirds: In my photo there is rule of thirds. The object that is the main focus is the seed in the upper right corner of the photo. If the rule of third lines were on the photo the seed would be in-between the right and top lines. The rule of thirds tells us where most people’s eyes get draw to in a photo. In this photo that helps draw our eyes to the main focus of the picture.

 

2. Perspective and depth: This photo is a good perspective photo because you wouldn’t look at dandelion seeds this way. Most of the time if you are even looking at a dandelion, then you probably would be looking down at the seeds not up. This helps draw people’s attentions to the picture because it is not something you might see every day.

 

3. Fill the Frame: In the photo the seeds take up the whole view. They fill up the frame. This gives the photo a unique look on the seeds. It also gets rid of most outside distractions that would make it hard to keep our eyes on the focus. Distractions also make a photo look cluttered and unorganized.

 

4. Leading Lines: This photo has leading lines that lead up to the seed tops. The stems of the seeds lead up to the focus of the photo there for drawing our eyes to the focus of the picture. This makes the photo more appealing and easier to look at.

 

5. Pattern: In this photo the seeds make a pattern, they repeat and give the picture a neat look. The pattern helps draw our eyes to the whole photo but still keeps you coming back to the main focus not anything else. The pattern makes the picture look nice, clean and gives no distractions to draw our eyes away from the focus for too long.

 

6. Texture: My photo has a textured 3D look. This is caused by the angle where the photo was taken; some of the seeds are farther away from the camera then others. This makes the picture look like its jumping out at you and not just a flat photo. It makes the photo more interesting at nicer to look at.

 

Objective 4: Lighting

Types of lighting and how they contribute to the image: The photo has soft side lighting. You can tell the lighting is soft because the seeds have a lot of detail and are very clear. You can tell the photo has side lighting by where the shadows are on the seed stems.

 

Objective 5: Post Production

Corrections/adjustments made: This photo has been resized, sharpened, cropped and the contrast was changed. These changes have made the photo clearer, and more in focus, they have also been cropped to make the main focus the seeds because there was some distractions.

 

Objective 6: Critique

 

Strength: This photo is really nice because the perspective if very unique. It gives you a new way to look at dandelions. It also has good lighting the light highlights the details and shows how delicate and soft the tops of the seeds are. These together give the picture a soft and gentle take on something you might not have seen before.

 

Area for growth: The thing I don’t like about this photo is the seed in the top left corner. It takes up the whole corner because it is so close to the lens. The photo would have had a lot more space in it if there was no seed. It takes up the whole corner that could have been used to make the picture better. Next time I take a photo I will try to make sure there is nothing in the photo that takes up too much space in a bad way.

 

Done