Rule of Thirds

This mission was on the rule of thirds. Supposedly, if you lay a "tic-tac-toe" like grid on their photo, 3 by 3, and have the subject lay across a line, the photo would be more interesting and appealing. The photo would be especially appealing if you had edges and borders of the objects close to the intersecting points of the grids as well.

Depth Staging

This week, we had to accentuate the foreground and background in a technique call "Depth Staging". This created the problem of finding the right distance to focus on the background and blur the foreground, or vice versa. Although this was hard the first day, it became easier the second.

I added this last photo since I realized I forgot a 6th image...

Repitition

This week we were tasked with taking photos that included repetition. In addition to repetition, these photos were also supposed to capture depth using repetition. This wasn't too hard since once I found a repeating series, all I had to do was find a good angle for it. During editing, we were also assigned to switch all our photos to black and white again. Although I prefer not to filter my photos this way, it accentuates the repetitive qualities of the photos.

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Leading Lines

For our second assignment, we were tasked with taking photos capturing the essence of leading lines. Leading Lines are lines that pull the viewer from the back to the frame to the front, or vice-versa,  using vertical lines. This was a harder assignment because I had trouble not blending this with repetition, our next assignment. Despite the challenge, it was still pretty fun.

3x3 Observation

For this assignment we were tasked with the job of taking photos of our surroundings from different angles and distances. This included extreme close ups and far shots as well as bird's eye views and photos from our feet.