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Now you’ll see a couple things here immediately. For one you can already see how important color is to photography. The image with the red tiles really pops. You will notice over time (and through the course) that using color is instrumental to creating good photographs.
Start to look for color all around you. A photography is almost always better if it is a colorful image.
Another thing you can take away from this is that notice how in your first image there is only a small portion of the image in focus.
This is what’s known as depth of field. The simplest way of thinking about it is that it’s just the part of the photograph that’s in focus. You’ll learn more about it later but just notice here how the combination of your lens’ minimum focus distance and your camera settings that are causing this shallow depth of field.
For now just know that your lens can only get so close to something. (it’s often marked as a distance on the barrel of the lens)
The critical thing here is that with photography you can make seemingly mundane items into interesting subjects. This takes practice and you’ll learn more about this over time. The reason you should know this is that there is almost always a better or more interesting way to compose and shoot photographs.
Just ask yourself what can I do to make this more interesting. Sometimes it’s as simple as moving your feet. Other times it means you should remove everything from the frame except the area of interest.
Whatever the case you’ve submitted your first assignment so you’re well on your way.
Here a couple more ideas that are related:
photo by D. Sharon Pruitt
photo by Jason Corey
photo by Angelo DeSantis
Nice job.
See you on the next assignment.
Keep shooting!