Marisa Hoyt
Assignment 5
COMPOSITION
PURPOSE:
The aim of this assignment is to look for some of the basic principles of composition to strengthen your imagery and enforce what it is that you want to say with a photograph.
Rule of Thirds
(50mm, f22, 1/200s, ISO800)
Fill the Frame
(50mm, f8, 1/250s, ISO800)
Viewpoint
(50mm, f11, 1/60s, ISO200)
Framing
(50mm, f16, 1/80s, ISO200)
Leading Lines
(50mm, f5.6, 1/1000s, ISO200)
Symmetry
(50mm, f22, 1/400s, ISO800)
Foreground
(50mm, f16, 1/40s, ISO100)
Horizon
(50mm, f16, 1/125s, ISO100)
Isolation
(50mm, f16, 1/250s, ISO200)
REFLECTION
I found some of these composition prompts to be fairly easy but others were very challenging to accomplish in the two different shoots I went on for this assignment. Two of my three kids have been on Fall break so our schedule has been off and it's been a challenge to get out on a shoot alone. I think two of my images have too high an ISO (rule of thirds and symmetry) but I didn't realize until after I took my photos. I should have dropped it down to ISO200 (I think). I feel like these images are more basic then I'd like and I wish they were a bit more unique and creative.
Overall, my favorite photo is the bird in the isolation image. I was on a boardwalk area where a lady was fishing and this bird was hanging out, waiting for her to walk away so it could steal her bait. Sure enough, as soon as she moved a bit down the boardwalk the bird moved over and tried to get in her bucket. She shooed it away and it quickly disappeared into the marsh.
I find the sky challenging to photograph here in Charleston. It is either very bright or very, very grey with lots of cloud cover. I struggle the most with setting the correct aperture, so I was trying to be very aware of "sunny 16" and making changes to that as needed, but then didn't pay enough attention to changing it to the proper the ISO. The more I do it, the easier it feels to strike the right balance and make a properly exposed image, but it is still a work in progress for me.