Category: Composition

In this photo, I used the snow on the window to frame the trees.

At a glance, the rock in this photo may appear to be part of the rooves. I composed this shot with a shallow depth of field so that the foreground is separated from the background.

This photo places the viewer looking up into the trees, perhaps making the viewer feel small or the world feel big.

This week’s photo challenge was to color-grade a photograph to make it look like film. I saturated some of the colors, darkened the shadows, and increased highlights to bring out the different colors to achieve a film-like effect.

This week’s prompt was to use negative space in a landscape photograph. I think the negative space in this photo helps to emphasize the silhouette of the buildings against the sky.

This is a portrait of a cat that lives in my neighborhood, I sometimes wonder if she is lonely. To stress the idea of being alone, I took the photograph in black and white.

Although this photo isn’t directly Renaissance “style”, the colors of the sky and the light reflected in the water reminded me of the range of colors often seen in Renaissance paintings.

This week’s prompt was to use leading lines to show the concept of infinity. When I think of infinity, I think of the sky. I used the telephone wires as leading lines to leave the viewer’s eye off of the page, suggesting that the wires could go on forever.

This week’s task was to take a picture of a symmetrical landscape. Although I couldn’t find a perfectly symmetrical landscape, I think this photograph encompasses symmetry with the cars, buildings, and trees on each side. This symmetry adds balance to the photograph and leads the viewer’s eye down the street and to the ocean.

For this week’s photo blog, we were tasked to take a picture showing motion using the rule of thirds. For my picture, I took a photograph of a stream of water coming from a spigot. I wanted to capture the motion of the water. I used the rule of thirds in the positioning of the water and the pipe on the left side of the photograph.