Composition with Craig
Forum 1: Composition Working on this assignment, since I am not sure what I want to do for my photo story, I decided I wanted to photograph an everyday item, and decided to go with a lamp because the interesting element of light that I could play around with. My goal was to take an everyday item that we do not typically think of or pay much attention to and try to capture interesting photos of it using different composition techniques. These are five shots with five different elements that I was able to get. Symmetry For this shot, I used the subject of the photo (the lamp) as a the line of symmetry/midpoint breaking down the two sides of the photo. Both sides of the image mirror/mimic the opposite side. I also thought the light that the lamp put off on the table was a neat addition to the symmetry and made the photo stick out more. I had to turn the light on to keep the photo symmetric because with it turned off, the shadow of the lamp threw off the symmetry by only display...