Portraits

I feel I did best with taking the "Prop" and "Artistic" portrait. My artistic picture is drawn with light and captures the emphasis of the light perfectly. The mood is contemplative, and I feel as though that is captured perfectly. In the Prop portrait we utilized James in his football uniform with his helmet. The picture captures the domination and dedication involved with the sport. The surprise photo I feel could of been better, and in fact my Artistic may have been more of a Surprise than the photo. The hardest task of this project was finding a prop for me, I could not think of anything to bring out ... me.

Contact Sheet

Out of all compositional tricks, my favorite was the drawing light. I feel out of all my pictures I really mastered that task. The most difficult simplicity because when in my regular day-to-day photographs I usually use the environment to bring attention to the emphasis so it was difficult for me to reverse that mindset. However, I am pretty sure I will use drawing with light in my day-to-day pictures.

Compositional Trick #8 Fill in Flash

Whrn using Compositional Trick #8, Fill in Flash, lighting from the camera is utilized to either lighten the emphasis or draw emphasis to the surrounding environment. When in a dark space and flash is off the emphasis' surrounding will be brought to more attention then the dark emphasis, but once the flash is turned on the emphasis is more visible and now the surrounding and emphasis are both visible more clearer.

Compositional Trick #7 Drawing With Light

When using Compositional Trick, Drawing With Light, shadows and natural lighting are utilized to make what w0uld be a regular average photo, an artistic phtotograph. The shadows and lighting pattern add an artistic touch to the photo. In order to grasp the concept one must draw with both lighting and shadow across the emphasis.

Compositional Trick #6 Framing

When using the Framing trick in a photo, things around the emphasis are used as a frame to capture and draw more attention to the focus. The 2nd picture is a good example where as in the first of the bird, it gets almost too chaotic and you almost loose the frame.

Compositional Trick #5 Extreme Angles

Extreme Angles is when a photo has been taken of a emphasis from a "bird's eye view" or a "worm's eye view". The angle at which the picture is taken adds more emphasis or character to the photo as seen above. The wall is taken from a worm's eye view and the graffiti is made to be that much more interesting because of it.

Compositional Trick #4 Simplicity

Simplicity is expressed through a photo when the subject or focus can be noticed with a simple environment. I tried to grasp this in my photos but the first one in my opinion is more of a snapshot where as the second one I'm closer to capturing a simplicity photo.