This week, the challenge was to use Center Frame Composition and isolate the subject of the photo, eliciting a feeling of loneliness. To do this, I chose to photograph this small wooden duck that is part of some decor in my living room. The duck comes from a set of four, but I only used …
For this week’s photo challenge, the prompt was to take a photo that told the story of a new beginning. I feel that this photo of a sunrise captures the idea in the prompt quite well. A sunrise represents that start of a new day, and which each new day, a new story. The bright …
This week’s prompt had me take a picture of trash to tell a story. Initially, I had no idea what to take a picture of, but after looking through my garage, I found some cardboard boxes that were filled with some old items. Although this wasn’t necessarily trash, I felt that they still represented something …
The challenge this week was to take a photo in the “Accidental Renaissance” style using balance composition. I took this picture of the sun setting and feel like it demonstrates this idea fairly well. I chose to incorporate the idea of balance into my photo in the exact opposite way as the word suggests: unbalanced. …
The challenge this week was to take a photo that told the story of my hometown. One part of Mountain View that I really love is all of the fall colors around this time of year. I chose to take a picture of the view from my house. I really like the variety of colors …
The prompt for this weeks’ challenge was to take a photo and change the white balance to affect the colors. I chose to photograph the ocean and use the change in white balance to emphasize the blue tones. In reality, the sky was a lot less vibrantly blue and the waves were a much more …
This week’s photo challenge had us represent the concept of infinity through the use of leading lines. I took a picture of this path in my backyard that is very long and wraps around the side of the house. The path acts as a leading line and moves the viewer’s eye throughout the photograph. I …
This week’s photo challenge was to “tell a love story” through a photograph. To do this, I chose to take a picture of my younger sister silhouetted against the sky making a heart with her hands. This shape she’s making as well as the warm tones of the sunset in the background work to represent …
This week’s prompt had us express weight or mass through the use of dark and light colors. When something is darker, it appears to be heavier, and when it’s brighter, it seems lighter. I applied this idea when photographing this piano. The darker keys seem much heavier and look like they have more mass compared …
This week, the photo challenge was to take a picture of a landscape that exhibited symmetry. I chose to use this picture of a sunset. The colors in the sky around the sun going down are all very symmetrical. The rocks on the lower section of the image are slightly less symmetrical, but they are …