Category Archives: Composition

For this weeks photo challenges, we were asked to create leading lines through food photography. I decided to photograph my mom’s homemade bread in the oven. Her whole wheat bread is one of my personal favorite things and she always made it a priority to make it for us throughout the week. Our family would make sandwiches with it almost everyday for lunch and take a few loaves with us on car trips. In fact, this is kind of bad, but it almost ruined all other bread for me. It took me an embarrassingly long time to get used to the idea of eating store bought whole wheat bread. I really like how the vibrancy of the warm tones in this photo. The oven, sides of the bread pans, and the heaters in the back all kind of draw your eye forward, but personally, I think my favorite part of…

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For this photo challenge, we were tasked with using the rule of odds, which was using the numbers 3 and 5 in our photography. If I am being completely honest, this one stumped me for a while. I didn’t really have a great idea of what to do, but then I stumbled upon this rack of barrels that utilized both three and five groups. I really enjoyed the more rustic vibe of this photo, though I do wish that when I had taken it, I had added a little bit more drama and flare to the photography by changing the angle I was taking photos at. I still think that it turned out pretty well and I am happy with the final product.

The prompt this week was about using negative space in order to create a landscape using negative space. I decided to choose this photo that I took of a sunset over the hills in my area. On some sunset days, the clouds turn pink and orange, and, personally, I love it when that happens. I also enjoyed the contrast with the silhouetted hills. The hills are practically omnipresent in my area. More often than not, you can see them rising above the tree line. This makes it a little startling when I visit the midwest and there aren’t any hills, or even mountains.

Our task was to take a photo using center framing to exhibit the feeling of loneliness. I decided to use this photo of one of my friends while our families were were on vacation together. We went fishing and caught a fish in the first five minutes, but then nothing for the next several hours. In this photo, even though the emotion was more boredom than loneliness and isolation, my friend sitting seemingly alone in a quiet pier in the middle of an empty park might be interpreted that way.

This week’s prompt was balance, but also to create an accidental renaissance photo. This was a trickier one, especially because paintings in the renaissance were varied. I did notice a common theme in that the subject was rarely looking at the camera and rarely openly smiling. In this photo, Cameron is staring off into the distance, just enjoying the view that he can see from the bridge.

The prompt for this week was to use leading lines to show the concept of infinity. I chose this picture as a response because the street never seems to end. It just goes on until eventually the viewer can’t even make out what is at the end anymore. I also thought the symmetry helped with that imagery of infinity as well.

This week’s prompt was symmetry. For this photo, it gets pretty close to being a natural mirror: the same types of plants, the same snow, and similar rocks. It is a pretty outwardly symmetrical photo, but I enjoy seeing some of the more subtler differences in the two sides, like how despite having the same trees, the side that gets more sun has slightly more growth. Nature can be symmetrical, but it will never have that perfect symmetry because of the variation of how things exist.