Negative space photography, this week’s assignment, has to be one of my favorite compositional techniques. I believe it allows you to see the bigger picture of an area without having too many complex objects interfering with one another. It’s minimalistic and pleasing. So, for this week’s assignment, I decided to head over to Westwind which …
Center Frame Portrait
This week, we were challenged to take a center framed portrait that allows the audience to feel a feeling of loneliness. This assignment took quite a long time to get. Initially when I asked if my mom to look lonely, well, that didn’t go too well. Anyways, me and my buddies often play poker and …
Balance Accidental Renaissance Style
This week, we were challenged to take a Balanced Accidental Renaissance style photo. Renaissance art is pretty unique and has a very particular style to it. I’ve never really taken an art class that really goes deep into renaissance art, so I picked out one of my Mom’s books from college that specifically focuses on …
Leading Lines
This week we were challenged to use the concept of leading lines, but not to show depth of field, instead, to show the concept of something being infinite. There are plenty of different objects and surfaces in my house that have leading lines, but the compositions surrounding them are all super colorless and boring. With …
Symmetry Landscape
For this week, we were challenged to take a landscape photo, without editing, that was symmetrical. Luckily for me, I was on a trip with my camera handy, when I came across this sunset. Due to the mountains being placed in the foreground and the way the light was positioned, it allowed for a reflection …
Rule of Thirds Motion
The goal for this week was to use the rule of thirds to take a motion based picture. When I was taking this photo, I wanted it to be clear that Shawn was the main object in the photo. Hence, as he was walking in and out of the frame, I had to time it …