Week 7 Homework

For the first photo I used the crop tool to take out the road and guard rail. I had a problem with layers and it is still confusing to me..so I used the select tool to duplicate the salamander; at least I think that is how it worked.

Landscape

Landscape photos are some of my favorite, especially in VT. There are many opportunities to get the natural scenery in a landscape photo- I like how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website describes landscape as a process. It is true that processes create and change the landscape.

Week 5- Assignment #3

Week 5-Assignment 2

I was thinking that I had one more day to take photos and ran out of time so that is why there are 2 night photos. I included a couple of other ones I had saved that I believe follow our topic this week. The first photo is centered and the second one is more in the third line, and shows more back and foreground; even though they are just leaves it makes a better photo. With the third photo I tried to fit the building and sign into the picture by centering them. The next photo looks nicer at a different angle and gives a nice perspective of the tracks, too.

Week5- Assignment 1

Before this week’s assignment I always focused on the object of the photograph, not where to place it in the frame. Simply focusing on background settings can change the aesthetics of any photograph. This week I learned to look at the entire shot- sort of like cropping the picture prior to taking it. That is, look at the full frame not just the object. This site discusses the rule of thirds, and I found it helpful. http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorial_composition.php

Week 4 Homework

My first photo was taken at night and I like it because the pumpkin looks nice against the black background. It does seem a little blurry though and I think that is due to me being in a hurry to get back in the house in the dark. The second photo was in sunlight obvious from the shadow of the pumpkin and the third one is under a cloudy sky.

Week 4 Homework

The first photo is an example of the analogous color scheme with three different hues of blue. The second photo is an example of the complementary photo with red and green.