Photographers eye book

Just bought Michael Freemans book from which the TAOP course is drawn.  Gives more explanation and expands on each point so very usedful to augment course.

Assignment 2

Assignment 2 notes from cnorris500

Assignment 1

Assessment 1 notes from cnorris500

Studio

Playing with naturally occuring shapes in the environment and used my yoga studio as an example.  Tried to produce abstract images and used naturally occuring light to produce shapes rather than simply record products.

Flash

As a result of doing a flash course I bought a Nikon SB-700 speedlight for my DSLR.  Am selling a lens on ebay and took the first shot using the built in camera flash, the second using the speedlight.  Bounced the flash off the wall in the corner of the room to get side lighting as well and the difference between the 2 images is considerable.  Used iTTL with the built in defuser to soften the light a little.

Horse study

Rhythm and pattern

First building shows rhythm of metal varandas and  marked perspective.  Second is also of rhythm.  Angling the camera makes the image more striking and the perpective disappearing into the bottom right rather than top left makes an unusual composition.

Third image shows pattern.  The eyes of the owls give a striking appearance to the photo and I decided not to crop the bushes out to break up the stark bleached colour.

Implied triangles

Facial features from eyes to cheeks to chin give implied triangle as does shape of buds in second image.  Pen tip is triangular and point sot lower left corner of photograph.  Shading helps to emphasise imbalance of left to right in photo.

Triangles

Lines

First image shows vertical line through sword, body and front leg.

Second image shows curve through sword and lower arm

Third image shows eye line to object out of shot