Second Portrait

For this picture of my Photography Partner, Alex, I took a picture of him while we were having a conversation. I edited the photo in Camera Raw, increasing the clarity, the tint, the saturation, and lowered the contrast slightly. I also lowered the highlight so that the clouds would show up on the picture.

Composition Review - 3 Rules

Above is the original picture that does not show any of my rules of composition. 

After cropping the picture and zooming in, I made sure that my 3 rules of composition were shown through this. My 3 rules shown here include Reflection, in the eye, though subtle, it shows reflection.

http://iphonephotographyschool.com/reflection-tips/

 Another is avoiding the middle, the main focus of the photograph is the eye of the sculpture, which in the cropped photo is off to the left rather than in the middle. 

https://www.inkling.com/read/landscape-photography-from-snapshots-to-great-shots-sheppard-1st/chapter-4/getting-out-of-the-middle

My third and last picture is Depth, which is shown through the leaves in this picture.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/depth-of-field.htm 

In New York Times Lens Blog post titled, "Revisiting Unhealed Wounds", I chose picture number 4 because it shows depth, the tiles on the left show reflection in a subtle way, and there is no true centralized subject. 

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/21/revisiting-unhealed-wounds-in-chechnya/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0#

First Portrait

While taking this picture, Zoheb (the guy in the picture) and I were having a conversation about our days and what school life has been like. I increased the brightness of the photo in camera raw, to emphasize the day light.

Fifth Photo Assignment - Self Portrait

For my fifth photo assignment, I took a self portrait. This self portrait is one that I took outside, in the sun, and due to that it may seem like I am squinting a alot. But it does not take away from the picture, or self portrait.

Fourth Photo Assignment - Depth of Field

For my fourth photo assignment, I used depth of field as my photo rule for the day. In this picture the man is looking off into the distance, with him being the main focus of the image, and he is very close to the camera, thus he is the main focus. Then the background is very far off from the subject, thus it has a shallow depth of field.