Category: Composition

This week I chose to depict the frame of a door being a sort of cell that my subject was trapped in. I chose this because during the pandemic, your room is something you’re trapped in. It’s really not that deep, but I like to think that the door frame helps support that feeling of being trapped.

This week I depicted an image using props! I used a piece of tape as my subject cut some paper for her graduation cap. I used the tape roll as the focal point for the image, that brings a lot of attention to her work.

This week I depicted Depth of Field as a way to make the subject blend in with the couch. I wanted to sort of show the experience of when you kind of sag into the couch and almost become it. By blurring my subject, it gets rid of the sort of focus that might differentiate her from the background, and instead makes her appear as part of the couch.

This week I depicted a shot from the viewpoint of my subject. I chose to use an iPhone, since it’s a common shot in commercials and different tech Youtubers. I was interested in how they get the shot so cleanly, and I think I learned a bit how. The key is rotation, but not just in one plane. Something I got wrong in this shot was the rotation on the Z axis; you can tell that the phone is rotated a little bit clockwise coming towards us.

For this week’s photo blog, I experimented with color theory, by trying to make my shot cinematic. I used cool tones in post production to try and emulate a lot of cinematic movies, and I also lowered the mid-tones of the shot to be darker and more gloomy. I’m trying to depict some sort of sad emotion on the subject with these different choices, and I think I succeeded 😉

The theme for this weeks Photo-blog was using the rule of thirds to convey emotion. In film class, we’re taught to always show our subject looking into open space, because the frame conveys emotion. If the subject looks into the open space, the audience feels more connected. So, I had my subject face away from the open space to convey him feeling closed off, and deep in thought.

For this weeks Photo-blog, the theme was lighting, specifically on shutter speed, which affects how fast the camera takes a photo. If you extend the shutter speed to multiple seconds, it blurs the light from those seconds into one image. A typical subject paired with long exposure is traffic, or a flashlight. I decided to break the mold by making a video that had the effect of a long exposure photo, while also showing the process of it.