The Photographer's Eye

Part 1: Frame

I chose this picture because I really like how the curved branches make a more rounded, softer frame inside the frame of the picture itself. Out back garden is full of trees and bushes that my dad has manipulated into swirls and spirals and other shapes/forms that would not occur naturally, and I felt like some of them would make good for photos.

Part 2: Vantage Point

This photo was one that I was torn between posting for Vantage Point or Frame, but I ultimately decided on the former. For all of the other pictures I took for this assignment, I was looking through my glasses at my camera screen as I chose my subjects and judged if I liked how they looked or not. So, I decided, why not switch it around and snap a photo or two from behind my glasses instead?

Part 3: Detail

This is one of my favourite pictures from this assignment. It's actually an aging grape leaf that was folded over itself on my back deck, but when I zoomed in really close to it with a shallow depth of field it almost looked more like leather (or at least some kind of warm-blooded animal skin) and I really thought that was neat. By just zooming in on the details of the veining, it almost doesn't even look like a leaf at all. (And I put it under the Tungsten white balance just because I like that kind of more mysterious vibe that the blue tones give off.)

Part 4: Time

I had fun with this one. The rain was making all of these bubbles pop up on this giant puddle, and I was able to get my shutter speed down quick enough to catch some of the bubbles when they were in the midst of being popped, and I just thought it was cool and interesting to be able to see that part of a process that's too quick for a human eye to really see on its own.

Part 5: The Thing Itself

And, finally, we get to the image that is probably my top favourite from this whole assignment. My legs went numb from crouching so long in front of this Lamb's Ear plant trying to get a good enough picture of the ants that really seemed to love it, but eventually I managed this one of a single ant perched on the point of one of the leaves. He skittered away out of sight in the next instant, but I was still able to capture this one moment when it had paused in the sunlight at the leaftip,