Advanced Photo Composition

Rule Of Thirds

Balancing Elements

Leading Lines

Symmetry and Patterns

Viewpoint

Backround

Create Depth

Framing

Cropping

Avoiding Mergers



Hurrican Ike

The Rule Of Thirds

This picture shows the direction of where she is going. And it's not too much space in the back, it's good enough to tell where she is going. This picture can also be "Balanced", you can tell how the picture is in it's position and the people arn't about to fall out of it.

Lines

The lines are pretty much all diagnal so it gives a diagnal look to the picture. So all the attention goes to the pieces of wood on the street. You probably wouldn't even notice the ladies walking on the side if you looked quickly at the photo.





Great Black and White Photographers-Part 2

Lewis Hine

He was born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin on 1874. He became a teacher in New York City, where he encouraged his students to use photography. In 1963, he was selected as the photographer for the National Research Project of the Works Projects Administration,but his work there was never completed. During and after World War I, he photographed American Red Cross relief work in Europe. Between 1904 and 1909, he took over 200 photographs, and eventually came to the realization that his vacation was photojournalism.

He died at the age of 66 on Novemeber 3, 1940.

Pinhole Finale

The differences I see between the two photos is that one is negative and one is positive. And the're reflected from each other.

My negative looks different from my positive because once we turned the negative to a positive the darker areas turned lighter than in the negative picture. The positive is more accurate than the negative because the positive is more likely what we see in real life.

Photography . noting an image in which the brightness values of the subject are reproduced so that the lightest areas are shown as the darkest.

Composition 9/11-The Basics

Framing

This is a good photo because the smoke and ashes frame the picture from three corners and the other corner is empty so it makes the picture interesting. Also what makes this picture interesting is the blue color on the corner where it has no framing. So it shows pretty much before and after.

Simplicity

This picture has a main subject: "The Building". Which this type of picture makes the audience focus only on the picture and not the objects around it.

Avoiding Mergers

In this picture you can bearly see what the photographer was really focusing on. Since the smoke comaflauges with the lines of the building. And you can't tell which part of the building it is.

Lines

The lines and position of the photo makes it as if the lines were all coming from one point, like a ray. Instead of being parallel it's at different degrees.

Balance

The balance of this picture shows pretty much how this picture is actutally balanced. And has an "S" shape. So it tells you that there's pretty much motion in the picture.

The Rule of Thirds

This picture shows distance of from where the people are coming from. And has space from the back to the front. And you can tell in what direction the people are heading.

Great Black and White Photographers Preview

Eugene Smith

Lewis Hine

Helen Levitt

Jerry Uelsmann

The Camera

-Diaphragm- To reduce the aperture of (a lens, camera, etc.) by means of a diaphragm.
-Parallax- The difference between the view of an object as seen through the picture taking lens of a camera and the view as seen through a seperate viewfinder.
-Pentaprism- A prism that has five faces, a pair of which are at 90° to each other; a ray entering one of the pair emerges from the other at an angle of 90° to its original direction: used esp. in single-lens reflex cameras to reverse images laterally and reflect them to the viewfinder.
-Corfield- The entire range of wavelengths or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation extending from gamma rays to the longest radio waves and including visible light.

-Aperture- A usually adjustable opening in an optical instrument, such as a microscope, a camera, or a telescope, that limits the amount of light passing through a lens or onto a mirror.
-Shutter- A mechanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film or the like.
-Exposure- The act of presenting a photosensitive surface to rays of light.
-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.
-F-stop- The setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number.
-Focal length- The distance from a focal point of a lens or mirror to the corresponding principal plane; the distance between an object lens and its corresponding focal plane in a telescope.

Pinhole Pictures

I like this picture because the photographer used a good view of the image, and it also has like another picture over lapping it. There is no action besides the water. It's a focused picture.

I really don't like this picture because of the red and blue color doesn't match whats in the back. I think the action that is going on is a car passing by, which made it blurry. Its pretty much focused on top but a little softened in the back.