Framing

This photo displays the composition element of design called Framing. It shows this because although the object I used to frame it wasn't from the environment it still frames the grass in a X shape.

Texture / Seletive Focus

This photo shows Texture. It shows this because it feels like if were to touch this picture you would feel the bumby rigid texture of the brick. It also has a little bit of selective focus because most of the bricks are out of focus except for a few which are very crisp.

Selective Focus

This photo shows the composition element called Selective Focus. Although usually in selective focus the background but instead the chain isn't in focus.

Light & Shadow / Line

This photo shows the element in photo compisition called Light and Shadow. It shows this because of the tree creating a shadow on the wall. It also shows Line because of the metal grid on the wall shows horizontal and vertical lines.

Camera Angles

This Photo shows camera angle because I took the picture with the camera over my head and facing the sky.

Scale

Scale is having a object usually being a human that you can make reference to because what is a picture of a giant mountain if it just looks like a picture of a rock up close. If the picture had a person standing beside the mountain then you could get a sense of how tall and wide it is. Instead of using people if you wanted the scale to be a little bit more indirect you could use boats, cars, houses, etc.

Photo District News Article

The main topic of the article is talking about a workshop that Harvey Stein ran in New York. The workshop took people in their mid twenty's to retired people showing it was never to late to learn. The name of the workshop is “Coney Island: Day & Night”. He got them to take pictures at the amusement park and choose there one best and some other good ones. He looked through and found ones that had the same theme and decided they were so good he should make a show. although the show went well he said he still isn't gonna do it again. I think this subject is worthy of an article because it is telling the story of not one photographer but a whole class of photographers.

I found this article very interesting because i was recently just in New York and I never got to see that part of he city but just the author talking about what they did gives me a sense of what it probably looks like. Also I found this article not to be extremely inspirational but it did give me some inspiration because they are taking pictures of "the last funky place in New York" so maybe I could do the same but in Toronto.

Reading this article gave me the idea of photographing more man-made mechanical like things because they talked about amusement parks which made me think of roller coasters. I think I am drawn to this particular type of photography because of the day and age I have grown up in forces us to be around high tech gadgets but I want to see the more old fashion steel and gears.


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