This week I took three photos supposed to exhibit the compostional elements in the best way I could. All were taken at my house. This one in particular is of a lamp on my bedside in my room. The photo was captured in such a way as to blur the two "poles" closest to the viewers sight. I purposfuly took this photo right in front of the first "pole" to give the impression of a winding figure. While it does wind a bit, the pattern is more controlled then the viewer might percieve it to be. This photo was taken in worms eye view and also utalizes the leading line technique, providing two compositional elements. I edited the photo to bring out the black in the lamp more and I also sharpened the center. My photo on the bottom I like the most. It is of a can of Axe being sprayed. I think I did a good job of capturing the motion of the mist and although "stop motion" isnt composition the photo was shot to the best of my ability in the third. The point where the spray is initialy leaving the can is in the bottom left quadrant. The photo was originaly very dark apart from the can and the mist however a bit of my bedroom in the background could be seen. I edited it all out to black though. It provides a nice canvas for the subject of the picture. My final photo utalizes framing. It is probably the weakest photo of the bunch and I didnt get the chance to do any editing to it. Though I worked to shoot the doors handle in the third.

I wanted to capture a photo using the moon as a form of backlighting. I didnt realize how dark the picture would turn out. The moon just isnt bright enough to provide the kind of backlighting required for a photo at night. I think it was just too far away. Anyways, I had to improvise. Instead I used the light from a lampost near our driveway. Being much brighter than the moons light, its gave me a better looking picture and still retained the night setting Id wanted. Of course the subject of this photo is a cross. I just taped two sticks together.  I took the photo from slightly off to the side and also down, achieving a worms eye view. This is the only compsition used in this photo.

This is a photo of two of my fingers held up against the late evening sun. The sun is behind a growth of trees and is blurred slightly, giving it an interesting shape. I like the lines of light coming from the sun and crossing my fingers. the glow from the sun is evident on the insides of my fingers, proving that this is backlighting.

Unfortunataly, I ran out of time today in class to upload this photo. It was edited and all but not put up on my blog. I had to get the picture on my blog so this is the unedited version, though I plan to upload the other in due time. I find this picture really cool because it is capturing the action of my shadow, its not the best simply because on of my hands is raised because it was holding the camera.

This is me throwing a Frisbee. I'm standing on the soccer fields on Horizons South Campus.  In order to make the photo less distracting, I edited out the soccer goal that would have been right under the Frisbee. I darkened the highlights and such because when I took the photo it was a tad bit too dark. I also used a green filter to bring out the color of the Frisbee better. My purpose in taking this photo was to capture an action photo in a first person perspective. My hand takes this role and you can really see the action as the Frisbee is released from my hand. I would have preferred if I hadn't been wearing a gray jacket because the sleeve turns up really bright and is slightly distracting. I cropped the picture to put the Frisbee in the third. Also, the photo could be considered leading lines, as the top of the trees leads into the curve of my hand, straight to the Frisbee.