Lesson 1: Re-Discovering Your World (NPH)

[Nikki]

I always tell my friends and everyone how “Cool” my neon clock is in my room haha! and when i 1st bought my camera i took a picture of it and i decided to use my clock as my assignment of course i re-took the pic of the clock! but the little flowers around it i got at a concert i went to and i stuck them up on my clock a long time ago and never took them down so i didnt put them there on purpose! its just how i see my clock everyday! I love that clock haha!

Thank You!
Have Fun!,
Nikki

I also decided to turn my light off in my room to take the 2nd picture because it shows its color more!

[Duncan Rawlinson]

This is a really great shot and incorporates a lot of the elements you’ll soon learn about in upcoming lessons. For starters you’ve managed to tightly frame the main object, which allowed you to take away distracting or irrelevant background “noise”. In fact, your first shot is a great example of a poorly composed shot. You’ll notice you’ve cut off (amputated) parts of objects around the 4 walls of your photograph (i.e. the picture frames and the calendar on the bottom wall of the photograph). That’s a very big and a very common mistake a lot of photographers make. Not only that, but your main object, the clock, is placed in the dead center giving the picture a sort of dull look. However, in your second shot, you managed to clean up a lot of those elements.

In fact, taking bad photography and analysing it for reasons why you don’t like it is one of the best ways to learn how to become a great photographer.

Notice in your second photograph, you’ve placed the main object slightly off center giving the photograph a more interesting look (Photographs are usually considered by dramatic when they abide by the rule of thirds). Similarly, you’ve managed to simplify your photograph. You’ve simplified the photograph in terms of content and colors. The clock and flowers now play a primary role and the primary color of blue creates an overall “cool” tone to your photograph.

Great job on your first assignment. I look forward to seeing what you do next.

You’re off to a great start!

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