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Centered & Rule of Thirds Assignment

 

 

The following pictures are of a balsam tree in my backyard. My daughter brought home the seedling of this tree when she was in preschool so we planted it.  She is now 27 years old!



Placed on the right

Centered



Placed on the left

I like the last picture the best because it takes in more scenery in the background.

Aesthetics & Composition

Important topics from reading- Week 5 

Aesthetics in photography is how people usually characterize beauty in this form of art... The qualities that make a product attractive to look at, or pleasing to experience, determine its aesthetic appeal.  There are certain visual properties that make photographs more aesthetically beautiful.










Composition and technique can be applied in almost any situation, to enhance the impact of a scene. The rule of thirds is the simpliest rule of composition.

One can develop a photographic eye by honing your visual skills and abilities as a photographer.

3 Different lighting situations.

.I decided to take a picture outside at 3 different times of the day to see how the sun and flash affected the picture.  I took a picture of the same outside structure at 11 AM, 4 PM and 7 PM.  If I did this again, I would take less pictures and be exactly consistent  accross the board ex: 1st pic was with flash, 2nd without etc. but of course I lost track of which was which and it was too late to re-do them so here they are.                                                         

 

 

 

The first two pics are without flash on a very sunny day. You can notice the sun is behind the structure in the 11AM pic, therefore casting a shadow on the snow in front of it.  The picture is rather hazy and not very clear.  The second picture is by far the clearest.  The pine trees in the background are clearer and have better defination.

 I used flash on the third picture and switched to the night option on my camera.  The picture came out horrible, probably due to the photographer! As we have read, it is important to have a tripod to really take nice outdoor pics at night.  Obviously, I am not that steady.

With my skills aside, here is a true example of how lighting affects photography.  With this knowledge in mind, I was able to go out around the same time on a different day (thanks to the holiday on Monday) to use the flash to see how different the picture would come out. Here it is,

 



What a difference.  The picture is much clearer and the background seems to have a more realistic depth of field, because there is a decline shortly after the structure leading to a pond and there is a a bank on the backside of the pond, where the pine trees are in the back.

This example also proves that it is beneficial to use flash on very bright days, that is if you want clearer pictures. I always thought that flash was not needed if there was enough natural light, but I guess I just proved that theory wrong. 

I had fun with this assignment and will truly think differently about using flash on bright sunny days!!



 

 

Monochrome color scheme

Monochrome examples

Here are a few more monochrome examples. I had a tough time with the lighting on the orange glass paper weight. The base is also orange but it looks white in this picture.

Complementary Color Scheme

I took this picture as the sun was setting. It is an example of a complementary color scheme.  The blue/ pinkish orange colors are opposite on the color wheel and the colors complement each other.

Monochrome Color Scheme

 Here is my example of a monochrome color scheme. The picture has only one hue, which is blue.

Macro Collage

Compare & Contrast 2 pictures.

                                    Please see the two pictures I chose to compare and contrast.  Both pictures were taken in Auto Mode and at different angles.  The first picture was taken without flash and is darker.  The second picture is much clearer overall; notice the colors in the leaves and the flower buds.  The flower buds are almost unnoticeable in the first picture.  The second picture is my favorite because of the clarity of the colors and the overall picture quality.

 

Please see my other photos all taken at various angles.