Compositions

Anna Labbe

Series of Compositions and Techniques

SEPTEMBER 13-15, 2018

This is my series of photography compositions and techniques. The goal of this assignment was to take an individual image for each compositions rule and technique. The setting of these images is mostly limited to my backyard, but there are a couple from the school grounds in there too. To make this project I had to have my camera, and really pay attention to the rules listed. Many of my images are of outside because that's where I find the most interesting images are. First, I went around the school with the class and just practiced taking good pictures. By taking good and interesting pictures, I could improve my picture taking and also hopefully find some of the compositions and techniques among the photos I had taken. For example, the Informal Balance image is a picture that I took of a tree in the school's front yard. A lot of the boughs of the tree were hanging out in the front, leaving the center like a canopy, which I thought would serve as a good example of informal balance.

There were a couple of compositions and techniques where I was unsure what to take a picture of, but I think I may have figured them out. For example, with the high horizon and low horizon lines, I was a little confused on how to take the picture. I wasn't really able to access an area with an obvious horizon line. But I discovered that in both of those pictures I took of the outside, there is a horizon line, it's just a little less obvious. So I cropped them so that one horizon line is higher up in the image, and one horizon line is lower in the image. The images that I had the most fun taking were the ones outside of plants. I really liked messing around with the selective focus in those images, especially when that little bee in the High Key Lighting came around. We have a lot of golden rod in our backyard, so I was looking to take some nice bright yellow pictures of those when I saw the bee and started taking pictures! That was a pretty cool moment. One thing that I'd like to try in future photography projects is taking pictures of people, rather than objects. Just to see what kind of vibes they bring to images and what I can capture by photographing people.