Textbook Picture

I really like this picture because of the curved lines moving through the photo. The lines lead my eye right to the city behind them. I'm going to try and use curved and leading lines in my pictures from now on.

My Depth of Field

I honestly don't like the first picture that much. I feel like that if I came up closer on the guy specifically, then added in the deep depth of field, it would've been a much neater shot. I like the second photo better, just because you can see all the way down and around through the hall. I could definitely improve on not making these spots on my pictures!



My Favorite Jim Brandenburg Pictures

Why would Jim Brandenburg want to do a 90 day journey?

I think Jim Brandenburg would want to only take one picture a day so he could really think about what he wanted to do. I know he's a big famous photographer, but anyone out in a beautiful place would want to take a million pictures and see what turns out right. My guess is that Brandenburg wanted to limit himself to one, so he could analyze thoroughly want he wanted, and how he would do it.

Jim Brandenburg Photography-Ninety Day Journey

I really like this picture from Jim Brandenburg's 90 day journey because he decided to include the canoe. Instead of just taking a picture of the scenery, he included the tip of the canoe, which I think looks  really cool. Also, he caught the reflection of the trees in the lake while the sun was just right.

Leading Lines

I like this photo because there are lines everywhere, and not all of the lines are solid. Some lines are shadows, which adds to the picture.

This picture is cool because the sides of the bridge are not exactly dead center. I like it how the railings are at a weird angle. 

I like this picture because when most people think of taking a picture of a railing, they would think so capture the side of the railing. This photographer decided to take the picture from the top, which adds a whole new dimension to the picture. This way, it leads my eyes down the steps and to the person below.

This picture caught my eye because of the lines that lead to nowhere. Most leading lines pictures lead to a focal point in the center of the picture. But this one had lines stretching all over the place, and goes nowhere, which I love.

This picture attracted me because I personally wouldn't think of cars as a good subject for a leading line picture. But this photographer used an extremely slow shutter speed, letting the blur of the speed of the cars make definite lines.

Depth of Field

These are all long depth of field shots because you can see far away.

My Personal Critique

My motion blur images were not very good. I took all of my pictures of my dog in our backyard running around. They would've been very good pictures if the light meter had been adjusted a tiny bit, and if they didn't havewater splotches on them. Aside from that, the actual pictures were pretty good.

Blurred and Frozen Motion Photography

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These pictures are all frozen motion photography. These all include very fast shutter speeds because they need to catch people in the moment without any blur.

1/15th-The photographer needed to focus on the little boy in order to make the background blurred.

1/8th-The photographer had a slow shutter speed so he could show the movement of the dancer.

1/8th-The photographer wanted to show the speed of the ride, so he/she used a very slow shutter speed.

These are all Motion Blur pictures. They are slow shutter speeds because the photographer wanted to capture blur in the photo to show speed.

My House

Some interesting places that I could take pictures would be in my brother's room, because he has many skateboards and interesting little knick knacks. Another cool place would be my backyard (not pictured), because it's a forest, so there are many plants and animals to capture.

Emotive Photography

First words that come to mind:

-chaotic

-solitude

-survival

-duty

-blur

This image draws the words chaotic and blurry and solitude to my mind, because the photograph is blurry, indicating that when a person goes through war, the whole thing is a blur. It just whooshes by, with you doing what you know you have to to survive. That's why I like this photograph. I can gather all that information by just looking at it. Also, the photographer added more orginality to the photo by making it blurry. That really drew me in to this picture.