Motion

This week's assignment was to change the shutter speed with our cameras and to experiment with the concept of motion. In my photos, I tried to exemplify the concept by taking pictures of glossy objects or objects with light to get nice results. Also, the ones that turned out well that didn't deal with light or glossiness included the lacrosse stick and the rubik's cube.

Depth #2

  This week's assignment dealt with trying to exemplify depth in our photos but with two new techniques: repetition and utilizing the foreground and background of our shots. For me, I mostly tried using repetition most of the time, in order to extenuate the idea of space in my shots, despite the fact that some of my photos, such as the batteries or the keyboard keys did not have a lot of space to start out with. I also tried applying the rule of thirds to some of my shots, such as the final one with the mailbox, trying to make it stand out as my subject in the frame, but at the same time exemplifying the space of the street. 

Depth

This week's assignment was for us to explore depth in a photograph. This is usually created with the use of leading lines, and will be visually appealing to a viewer's eye. This is often seen in photographs in roads or pathways, that help guide the eye. For some of these shots, I had to get a unique perspective in order to take a pictures that express depth in subjects that we normally don't see depth in. 

The Rule of Thirds

   This week's assignment was to learn about the Rule of Thirds in photography, which is a way of capturing and balancing our photos. Using the Rule of Thirds, to my understanding, is a way of dividing the frame into thirds, vertically and horizontally, giving a total of nine parts. My attempt of utilizing this technique involved mainly trying to place my subject at one of the intersections of our imaginary grid of the frame, in order to get a more appealing view to the casual onlooker. Most of my pictures were trying to use the rule of thirds horizontally, but I did attempt to utilize it vertically with the tree covering two thirds of the frame leaving the upper portion with a view of the sky.

Set #1

In this first set, I play around with the exposure, contrast, vibrancy and other effects such as black and white to further exemplify my original photos. Our group was tasked with photographing a subject in multiple ways, so with the peace pole, I tried to make the green color stand out a bit more to try and make the pole stand a bit taller than it really is, as exemplified in the final photo. For the cars, I tried to get multiple shots from different distances, as the first and second pictures are close up to give full attention to the car, while the third photo in black and white is an attempt to make it in a group, and instead of just focusing on just the red car, it is now one car in a whole group of cars.