Composition

Photos taken 6/29/24 - 6/30/24

Reflection: I enjoyed this assignment, despite a rainy shooting session that made taking photos a bit difficult. Two pictures are from the wedding venue that I performed at on Saturday, so they were taken indoors in fairly dark lighting. The ISOs are higher there, especially for the glass vase that I had trouble getting light enough, even though it was next to a window. I probably could have put the ISO a little lower than 6400, but at ~1000 where I started, I was getting the message of "subject too dark." I did really like the effect of the glass on the stems inside of the vase, and I like how that image has both symmetry and reflection onto the glass table.

The outdoor pictures are all at the Arnold Arboretum. I went with a friend and it started raining basically as soon as we got there, so he helped hold an umbrella for me while I took pictures --it was a two person job! I really enjoyed taking pictures of the flowers there. I took many blurry and overexposed or underexposed pictures, but also a few that I liked. I think the depth of field picture turned out well, as a closeup of the arch that recedes into the sky. 

One thing I noticed after importing these images into lightroom is that everything looks slightly darker after exporting than it did on my camera. So the picture for isolation, for example, could definitely have had a slower shutter speed to get more light. The main subject for that image is the tree, but if you look closely you can also see a tiny bird sitting on the topmost branch.

For the rule of thirds, I'm not sure if my photo fits the brief. In the example shown there were multiple elements at different distances from the camera, while here I have one foreground object and the background. I did try to align it with an imaginary grid, so I'm wondering if this still works.

For the viewpoint picture, I found a tiny tree that had branches going horizontally just a few inches above the ground. I tried a few different angles and eventually settled on this vertical one that also required me to crouch quite a bit!