This was the FIRST picture I took and the first picture I saw as an opportunity to take. Just seeing the leaves, signs, mountains, and how the road curves into obscurity behind the trees felt like a scene from a movie, and I just HAD to capture it
I felt that this picture was a very good example of aperture and also just a pretty cute photo. Someone’s toddler looking at animals for the first time felt like an excellent moment to capture, plus framing it through the face hole of the painting was just too good an opportunity to pass up
I saw the twisty, cragged tree, and I just KNEW I had to frame something thru it, and when I saw the house in the background, again, it was too perfectly set up to not take a picture. My first attempt made the house too far in the background, but after adjusting my position to make the house look larger, I snapped this wonderful picture!!!
I took inspiration from one of Noah Veyman’s example pictures while we were in class, about to go on the trip. He caught a photo of a flower up close, the background completely blurred, and I told myself I’d find a way to produce a similar photo. So, after I snapped the picture of the house framed by the tree, I walked a bit and found just a lone flower, got up close to it, and snapped a series of pictures from multiple angles. By far, my favorite was this one, with the flower more in the bottom right
Directly after the flower photo 2 above, I heard some bird chatter, and looked upward to see a flock of birds, so I tracked them with my camera for a while. After a couple minutes, the flock was set on landing on this tree, so I caught this, a photo of them all RIGHT before they landed on it. I love the way this photo subtly follows the rule of thirds, it’s great!
Finally, about 10-15 minutes before we left, I saw a lush tree right next to a leafless tree, and I thought it would make a great contrasting picture of life and death so close to each other, It just felt right to take a picture of it. No real thought behind the picture other than the pure symbolism of the moment.
BONUS PICTURE!!! I’m sorry, we were only SUPPOSED to go up to 6, but this one was such a good picture and I felt so prideful after taking it, I couldn’t refuse putting it here! This picture was taken AS WE WERE BEING GATHERED UP TO LEAVE, and originally, I just liked the contrast of her red and black shirt with the grass and treeline, but then I saw the railing with pumpkins and the low ceiling with the suspended plants AND how the pumpkins line up with the ones in the background (look to the far right), It just genuinely looked like a shot straight from a movie to me! I loved this shot so much, it’s aperture, color, lines, framing, and shape ALL IN ONE! One giant assignment photo, meeting every requirement!!!
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