9th Roll: Framing

For the framing roll, we were supposed to make the subject outlined by a frame of some sort. Windows, door ways, and hats or umbrellas. I chose to get the footprints of my dog when she went out in the morning. I think the paw prints look good in contrast to the snow. The second picture I took was one of a playground near my neighborhood. I tried to get the tall objects (bottom right corner) in the center of the bars. I didn't make it very clear so the eye goes all over and doesn't know where to focus on.

6th Roll: Rule of Thirds

In the rule of thirds assignment, I used lines to help me. The morning I took the photograph of the two posts leading into the field, there was a heavy amount of fog. It's not easy to see, but in the horizon there are trees that have fog. It would have been better if the horizon were a third of the way down but to get the two posts in the picture I had to have the horizon in the center. The parking lines and the crack in the road made an "A" that I though was very interesting. I put the vertex in the upper right hand corner to make it more interesting. I printed both at 4 seconds.

8th Roll: Free Assignment

This is in place of the Carter Mountain assignment that I couldn't attend. In the roll I took pictures of mostly plants that were blooming because of spring. I found a leaf on the ground that was half on grass and other on cement. When printing, I had help from Mr. Garland to dodge and burn. The overall photo was put under for 4 seconds and then I used a pin to dodge the leaf and let the grass burn in for 2 more seconds to make it a little more darker. In the photo with the trees, I tried to dodge the lightly colored petals while the surrounding received a few more seconds of light. I started with 2 seconds for the whole picture and then used my hand to block the tree petals for another 2 seconds. I used a few sheets to make the left building darker, but it still came out pretty light everytime.

5th Roll: Conveying A Message

For this roll conveying a message I used my dog. He was digging in the backyard under the steps and it was really sunny and hot that day so the picture came out lighter than usual. I'm thinking I could have tried a different angle to get a better understanding of what's going on. In the other photo, I used my shoes and put them at the edge of the balcony and shot at the ground below. I was trying to convey the sense of height which is a bit hard to tell unless it's explained or looked at closer. It would have been neat to do this off a building that's higher up.

4th Roll: Lines

In the lines roll, I decided to print the reflection of water and a tree branch that had water droplets. Lines are in the reflection from the trees. For the other picture I chose the branch that had an aperture of f/5.6. It has a good use of depth and lines in both the droplets and the branch. Lines can be diagonal, horizontal, and vertical. They can be in an S-shape or a C-shape and this gives it a feminine or masculine look. Another photo that I like but decided not to print was number 26, with a reflection on the hood of a car that showed the trees. 

2nd Roll: Motion

In the second roll, we took pictures on motion. Half of the roll was frozen and the other was blur. The picture with the dog was off focus but would have shown motion pretty well since the dog was running towards me. In the second picture, the fan was spinning on a medium speed so taking a freeze shot of it was fairly easy. To get a frozen picture you need to keep the shutter speed at values over 1/60 and under that for a blurry photo.

3rd Roll: Depth of Field

Depth of field is used to help focus on a certain subject or get the whole picture in detail. To adjust depth, you need to use the aperture on the camera. The bigger the number the smaller the aperture and the more clarity you get with the foreground and background. The photo of the trees and the sun shining through is my photo with an aperture value of f/8 and enlarger time of 6 seconds. My shallow depth is of my Zune but I focused on the headphone cord instead and the actual device is a bit out of focus. I used an aperture of f/2.8 and put the enlarger on for 5 seconds.