Depth Of Field
The first four photos took were of the balsa wood. I was low to the ground and used artificial light sources from lamps. I used manual focus to decide what we wanted in focus. The first picture is the best composition. For the first picture I used a shallow depth of field and an f-stop of about 2.8. A shallow depth of field is good to use when you want to have some , but not all of the picture in focus. The second and third picture also have a shallow depth of field. The first picture has the middle ground in focus, the second photo has the background in focus and the third photo has the foreground in focus. The last photo is different. I used a low aperture because all of the elements are in focus.
Depth and Space
The first and second photo were taken at Tabor academy. The first one is leading lines. The rock wall leads you through the picture. The second photo is Foreground Middleground and Background. The ramp and wooden post were foreground. The deck with the boats on it is the middleground. And the background is the boats far away in the back and the trees in the far distance. The third and fourth and fifth photo were all framing. The third was taken at my house of my staircase to the basement. I took the photo through the door and doorway. The fourth photo is of a tractor in the back yard. I took the photo from inside and took it looking through the window, making the window frame frame the picture. The fifth photo was taken out of a window in my house, using the window as the frame of the beautiful picture created outside of the window. The last photo is of my grandparents sitting on a bench. The brick path in the picture creates good leading lines that draw your eye through the center of the photo to the back. The slanted angle of the photo also gives it emphasis.
Shadow and Reflection
Reflection:The photo I chose for reflection was the second photo. I took this photo in class. I used mirrors and a toy car to get a reflection. Both the car and its reflections were in the picture. In the picture it looks a merry go round or cars. I created that image by putting two mirrors facing each other so that it created a continuous line of circling cars.
Alex Maclean
Technical Aspects of Photograph
The lighting in this picture is sunny and mid-day. The sun is coming from the right and creating a shadow to the left. The photo has great contrast between the white snow and the black trees and gray shadows. The camera angle is arial and from directly above the subject. The photo uses the rule of thirds with the rows of trees and rows of fencing. The photograph is horizontal. The horizontal view is very effective in this photo, because if it was the other way around it would not give the same effect as it gives this way. The most important part of this photo is the effectiveness of the shadows.
The lighting in this picture is sunny and mid-day. The sun is coming from the right and creating a shadow to the left. The photo has great contrast between the white snow and the black trees and gray shadows. The camera angle is arial and from directly above the subject. The photo uses the rule of thirds with the rows of trees and rows of fencing. The photograph is horizontal. The horizontal view is very effective in this photo, because if it was the other way around it would not give the same effect as it gives this way. The most important part of this photo is the effectiveness of the shadows.
Landscape, Seascape, Snowscapes & Cloudscapes
Seascape: The most effective photo in this selection is the photo of the dock that is centered in the middle of the picture. This picture was taken at a dock in tabor academy. The distance isn't very far, the viewer is up and close to the dock. The foreground is the part of the dock closest to the viewer. The dock is also in the middle ground, it leads you through the two layers of the picture. The background is the boats and trees and sky in the back of the photo. The photo is horizontal. It is very effective in creating a balanced composition horizontally. There are very noticeable leading lines along the edges of the dock. There is also a line created by the treelike in the back of the photo. The lighting is very dark in the front created by a shadow of trees behind the camera. The lighting gradually gets brighter as you go towards the back of the photo towards the sunset. The photo communicates peace and calmness about the place where the photo was taken.