Rule of Thirds

This image [left] is a good example of the Rule of Thirds The wheel arch of the car is in the bottom right intersect of the frame and the tower is close to the left hand vertical line. (The lines were added in Photoshop)

This Image [Right] is not so well framed, the subject of the image, the plug (as mundane as it is) is in the center of the frame. I have cropped it in photoshop so the plug appears in the top right side of the frame... This makes the image look alot more effective. I have also kept the wires in the frame because it shows the level of Depth of Field in the image. [below]

The lines on the image are only rough and not the exact rule of thirds. They are just added so you 'the viewer' gets the idea. 

Group Images

This image is a good example of Lines. The cement lines between the bricks are very prominent.

This image is a good example of colours. There is a very noticeable contrast between the bright red of the car and the dark grey of the clouds in the sky.

This image has very good textures. There is a contrast between the roughness of the lichen (green stuff) and the smoothness of the wet mud on the ground.

This image has very good patterns. The stairs go down 3 floors and spiral downwards. The building is not tall enough to have an 'infinite' seeming loop going downwards, but this is just as effective.

Can you make a photo look interesting?

This is an image that I have purposely framed incorrectly. I have introduced a lot of the background into the image which has made it very busy and cluttered

This is the same image, but here I have recomposed using the crop tool and blurred the background slightly to make me more in focus. I have also altered the levels of the image in photoshop [see histogram image].

Good Examples...

Colours:

This image has very vibrant colours. It contrasts between the pink of the flowers and the blue of the sky and lake (and possibly the dark green of the forest).

Lines:

I found that this image has the best lines. It has the lines from a vehicle passing by the camera. The camera had a slow shutter speed so the only light picked up by the sensor is the very strong / harsh light from the head / tail lights of the passing vehicle. A tripod will be needed to take an image like this so the camera stays perfectly still; if the camera were to move at slow shutter speeds like this the image will be victim to camera shake.

Textures:

This image has very strong textures. They contrast from the high levels of detail in the crops to the softness of the clouds.

Patters:

This image has very noticeable patterns. The image is almost completely symmetrical (vertical) and there is a small pattern at the back of the image (end of the tunnel) there are triangular plates at the back of the image. There is also the rims around the tunnel’s roof; they are evenly spaced and continue to the end of the tunnel.

What Makes and Interesting Photograph

Photos that I find interesting...

I like this images because you are able to see two people in focus in the center of the bullet holes and the strange tower. The user firstly notices the people standing on the road and then they look around to image to discover the shattered glass and bullet hole. This image empathizes how the area this was photographed is not too pleasant.

I Like this image because of the expression on the man's face. He is the main subject of the image and the curtain camera angle allows you to see the bull in the background. The bull running in the background suggests why the the man is expressing that particular facial expression.

I also like this image because of the facial expression on the main subjects face. I also like the buttery bokeh (blurriness) of the background, which is obtained from using a wide aperture and/or long lens. I also like the way that the photographer has managed to stick to the rule–of–thirds while taking this action shot. He has kept the wickets, ball and grounded bat on the bottom right of the image and the flying sticks off the wickets in the top right hand corner of the composition.

I like this image because of the amount of people crowding around the one golfer, this shows how tense and exciting this particular moment is. I also like how the crowd is showing a level of order and control in that way that they stay inline and are not disturbing the subject. The emptiness in the center of the image also adds appeal because having a large density and small density in the same image.

I like the way this image seems like a standard war style shot, until you notice the 'soldier' on the far left. He seems to have very little camouflage on and the is an emphasis on the pink underwear! We can tell this person it not a real solder by they way he is wearing a red shirt below his, supposedly, borrowed vest and also he is wearing flip–flops.

Year 11 Photography Unit

Hello, my name is Rhys. I am studying OCR media. I am currently on the third unit of my course.

Unit One:
– We researched and produced our own CD covers. We also created a Magazine cover and contents page using Adobe® Photoshop CS5.

Unit Two:
– We worked in groups to produce a film trailer. Our chosen film genre was Horror and it was edited in iMovie '11.