Assignment #3: AGING , FRAMING, BLACK & WHITE

THEME: AGE

PHOTO RULE: FORE-GROUND FRAMING

STYLE: BLACK & WHITE

I really enjoyed this particular assignment and I believe it was one of my best photo-shoots partly because of all the things I have learned. My photos this week were taken at at huge cemetery in downtown Norfolk,Va. I choose this location because of the theme of theme of the week being "AGE". I personally have had a huge epiphany in the last year working at a retirement home and being around 80 and 90 year olds all day everyday has truly opened my eyes to the circle of life. I believe that now more than ever before I take a new meaning to the word "AGE" and "LIFE" for that matter. Life is truly precious and time is truly the most precious of commodities.

In this first photo I definitely used the rule of the week. The statue does a great job of framing while being in the foreground. In picnik I decided to make everything black and white except the line of green created by the bushes in front of the statue. I love color and for me this was small way to keep some color and still comply with the theme. I decided on this particular back angle because in my opinion it added some type of "holy" powerful thing ,if you will, feeling that came from viewing the statue of jesus from the back and seeing the earth from his point of view.

Photo#1:

ISO- 80

SHUTTER SPEED- 1/316

F-STOP- 2.9

In this second photo at the cemetery I was able to capture this second statue in a way that made it appear that it was looking at the line created by the other tombstones. Again this statue also provides the fore-ground framing guide that makes the photo very interesting. I love the layers that also add an interesting touch to this photograph. I used the black and white effect from picnik.com but I faded it just a bit so that it still had some tones of color.

Photo#2:

ISO- 80

SHUTTER SPEED- 5.5

F-STOP- 1/605

Finally in the third photo I was able to shoot a ground shot which allowed me to use small flowers as a fore-ground framing tool. This photo also uses layers which adds perceptive to the photograph. In this photo I also used picnik.com to add a layer of cinema film and black and white faded to show some tones of yellow. I absolutely love this photo because it uses the theme wonderfully using such small objects. I love it!

Photo#3:

ISO- 80

SHUTTER SPEED- 10

F-STOP- 1/276

2ND HALF: ASSIGNMENT #2 (Non-Theme Photo)

PHOTO 3 (NO THEME)

SHUTTER SPEED: 1/540 SECONDS

F-STOP: 3.2

ISO: 80

In this photo I decided to stay with the nature theme because i was already outside. I used the rules of FRAMING, LAYERS, and LEADING LINES. I absolutely love this photo because it turned out to be very interesting and I feel that the colors really make it something special.

I used picnik.com again to enhance this photo using a cinema gloss as well as color boost. It really did something for the photo. Another thing that makes this photo interesting is the symmetry that the the foliage gives to center the fountain.

I am thinking about printing this photo as a large print and framing it in my house (thats how much I like it!) :-)

2nd Half : Assignment #2 NATURE/SIMPLICITY/COLOR SCHEME

PHOTO #1 In this photograph I was able to capture beautiful flowers at the Chrystler Museum of Art Garden. I used the rule of LEADING LINES and the rule of LAYERS. The main colors used in this photo are pink , green , and blue. These colors are intermediate colors on the color wheel. Shutter speed: 1/30 second F-stop: 5.7 To enhance this photo I used the Picnik.com and used the color boost feature to really brighten up some parts of this photo. There is also a moving car in the background which should get me some extra points :-)

PHOTO 2 In this photo I really used the rule of SIMPLICITY and the rule of LAYERS. This photo used split complementary colors of almost a purplish red, bright green grass, and a pink yellowish color flower at the bottom. This photo was enhanced using picnik.com focal blur tool and color boost on the flowers only. I feel like this really helped with the SIMPLICITY theme of the nature shot. Shutter Speed: 1/30 F-Stop: 9.3

April 12, 2011 (Class Assignment)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrumyeyeslnicole/5397360160/in/photostream In this first photo the diagnosis was is that this photo was out of focus, most likely because I was at work and was trying to take a fast photo. Also, this picture would have also been better if it was not slanted and if it was cropped to only fit the table. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrumyeyeslnicole/5397357104/in/photostream In this second photo the diagnosis is that the photo is too wide. Also, I think it would look better if I would have zoomed in on the background across the water to portsmouth. I think it also would have been more intresting if I could have moved over to get some of the the building on the right out of the shot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thrumyeyeslnicole/5397362234/in/photostream In this final picture the diagnosis is that the photo is out of focus because the subject is moving and talking. Orginally I thought that having half of the subjects face would make a more intersting photo but it turned out not to be that way. I think to fix the problem I would re-take this photo and ask the chef to stand still and make sure I had his entire face in the shot. If I had control of the apeture on my camera I would also like to make the food in front of him in focus and leave him out of focus but not moving just to see if it would make a good photograph and I would see if it added anything by making this photo in black and white.