Composition 9/11

SIMPLICITY

             I chose this picture because with the sky as the background,
             it really captures the scene of the World Trade Center smoking

                   from the plane that struck it.

THE RULE OF THIRDS

I chose this picture because it shows the memorial
with the names of the victoms carved and makes it
look like it goes on which gives it a path to follow in the
image.

LINES

I chose this picture because the lines of the american flag
which are parallel with the others gives the picture a good mood
of americans showing their respect torwards their country.

BALANCE 

I chose this picture because with the fisheye lense, it
gives the image a balanced feeling while showing the whole
memorial and it's surroundings.

FRAMING

I chose this picture for framing because with the buildings

of downtown Manhattan, New York it makes the image

centered and adds depth to the image.

AVOIDING MERGERS

I chose this image for avoiding mergers because

the flag behind the speaker makes it kind of steal attention from

the main subject... which would be the speaker. Also, the

flag appears to be coming out from behind the speaker.

 RED

This picture would fall under the "lines" compostion

because the lines of the painted curb are straight. Also

it may fall under the composition "rule of thirds" because

the angle of the image makes the curb seem like it is going

somewhere and you can follow it.

 METAL

In this photo, I feel I used the compostion of "lines" and

also "rule of thirds" because the lines on the metal wire 

and the angle of the image is tilted to where you can follow

the path of the wire. 

 GRUMPY

I feel that this picture has some "simplicity" because

nothing is going on in the background, it's just a white wall

and the image centers on the painting of a 'grumpy' face.

Great black and white photographers, PART 2

                                                 

Timothy H. O'Sullivan, born in 1842 in Ireland. At the age of two moved with his family to New York during the potato famine. He was on of the first people to call himself a photographer. He was among the first to take photography of the field. His field work began on the Civil War battlefields and took him to the Western Frontier. in early 1861, he was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Union Army. His most famous photograph, "The Harvest of Death," of the dead soldiers became a collection in "Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War" From 1871 to 1874 he faced starvation on the Colorado River when some of expedition's boats tipped over or capsizing. He spent the last years of his short life in Washington, D.C., as official photographer for the U.S. Geological Survey and the Treasury Department.O'Sullivan later died of tuberculosis at age 42 on January 14, 1882.

Bastrop Fire 2011

I like this picture because it really captures the moment and shows how big and terrifying the fire was with the black clouds of smoke and the high flames of fire.

Menu, View Pictures Settings, Record Button, Display, Trash, Sensitivity (ISO), Self-Timmer,   

Canon EOS Rebel T3

Auto Focus - system uses a sensor a control system and a motor to focus fully automatic or on a manually selected point or area.
View Finder - what the photographer looks through to compose and take a image.
Shutter Speed -  is a common term used to discuss exposure time, the effective length of time a camera's shutter is open.
Angle of View - describes the angular extent of a given scene that is imaged by a camera

Aperture - is a hole or an opening through which light travels.
Shutter -  is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time.
Exposure - the total amount of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph.
Depth of Field - the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear sharp in an image.
F-stop - expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens.
Focal length - measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.