Advanced Photo Composition

1. Rule of Thirds

2. Balancing Elements














3. Leading Lines

4. Symmetry and Patterns

5. Viewpoint

6. Background  

 

7. Create Depth

8. Framing

9. Cropping

10. Mergers and Avoiding Them

Hurricane Ike

The rule of thirds is represented in this pic by showing both the subject and the the destruction of her room.
I liked this photo a lot because it showed the depression on the girl's face when she saw her room.

In this photo, Framing is showed by showing the subjects (in this case the houses) in the foreground giving it more of that personality.
I liked this photo because it showed the before and after of the destruction....and there was a flaming house in it which is cool :)

Great black and White photographers part 2

  W. Eugene Smith

W. Eugene Smith took this picture of a wounded soldier in Okinawa in 1945.

 He was born in Wichita, Kansas in 1918.

William Eugene Smith passed away in 1978. (Died at the age of 60 :o)

W. Eugene Smith worked for Life Magazine which made him famous.

Nun Waiting for Survivors in the sinking of ANDREA DORIA

 1956.

Steel Worker, Pittsburgh

September 22,2010

Differences: The negative actually looks like it could be the positive and the positive looks more like the negative.

All the light areas are shown as the dark areas making the picture show in negative.

Negative: Noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

September 14, 2010

Simplicity

Basically the angle taken with the photo shows off a better view of the towers.

 
The Rule of Thirds
The rule of thirds is represented by showing most of the smoke and fire.

Balance

The collapsing building makes a geometric triangle with the truck making the photo balanced.

Lines

in this photo the lines are like arrows pointing to the subject while in this case its the president that the lines are pointing at.

Framing
This photo frames around the airplane showing more emphasis on it.

Avoiding Mergers
The background makes it to where the subject , the towers, don't blend in with the background.

September 9, 2010

                                                             Margaret Bourke-White

                                                   Dr. Kurt Lisso, Leipzig's city treasurer,
                                                   and his wife and daughter after taking poison
                                                   to avoid surrender to U.S. troops, Leipzig
                                                                                 1945

                                                              Julia Margaret Cameron

                                                                            Sadness
                                                                               1864

                                                                        

                                                                    W. Eugene Smith

                                                         The Walk to Paradise Garden
                                                                              1946

September 03,2010

Shutter Lag-

Is the delay between triggering the shutter and when the photograph is actually recorded.

Auto Focus-

Having the ability to focus automatically

Pixel-

The smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system.

Contrast Ratio-

Measure of a display system, defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black) that the system is capable of producing 

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Aperture-

Also called aperture stop . Optics . an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

Shutter-

Photography . a mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.

Exposure-

To subject, as to the action of something

Depth of field-

The range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument, usually a camera lens, through which an object will produce a relatively distinct image.

Also called depth of focus.

F Stop- 

The setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number. 

Focal length-

The distance between an object lens and its corresponding focal plane in a telescope.

Also called focal distance.
 

September 01,2010

I like this photo because the color of the sunset mesmerizes me.there is no subject in the photo but yet the landscape is good by itself. The most focused thing is the shadow of the boats in the water while the softest thing is probably the rippling in the water.Nothing in this photo is warped but if there was i probably couldn't see it.

I dislike this photo because everything seems out of focus. There is a person in the photo but there is no blur because the subject is not in motion (He is on the couch in the shadows). Whats most in focus is probably the door while the least focused is the drapes? or is that the wall....I don't know but yea that part. Everything in the photo kinda seems warped probably through the lack of focus. :)