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My Halloween Picture

My Panoramas

Article

ok. The aritcle i read can be found in the magazine PC Photo, the march/april of 2007 issue.
the actual article can be found on page 78.

Photographing The Landscape.

so basically this article talks about how to take pictures of a landscape. Mostly it talks about taking pictures of the things that capture your interest when looking at a landscape. you dont want to get too much in the picture or it becomes crowded, and people may lose interest. the main point of this article is to take pictures but just keep enough in the picture to not make it confusing. just take a picture of what caught your interest in the first place

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Rhythm

Framing

Horizontal

Vertical

Formal Balance

Informal Balance

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angle straight

angle up

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Sharp Focus

silhouette

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arrangement

vertical symmetry

Filling th Frame

rule of thirds

My PICTURES

Triangulation

Radial Symmetry

Just something cool

foreground / midground

midground

Good/Bad Photo Analysis

What i think makes this a "good" picture is that fact that its very vivid, with all the use of the different filters it really brings out the colors of the sky and the setting sun. I am also a fan of the simplicity of the photo.

This next picture may not be as simple as the first one but thats one of the reason i chose it, I like this picture because the colors are pretty amazing. The picture also has some awesome clarity and there are so many things to look at.

 What i like about this picture is that it shows a very close up view of a small bit of life. the background is blurred forcing you to focus on the textures and colors of the dragon fly. this causes a sort of pop effect.

Although this picture does have an interesting aspect, it is quite bazarre.

What i think qualifies this picture as a "bad" picture is the fact that the colors are washed and it looks like it was ripped off of someones painting on the wall.

What i dont like about this particular photo is that there is nothing very interesting to look at. it is just a picture of a bunch of trees and some sky. it isnt broken up into 1/3s or anything. its just un-interesting.

KWL

What i know about photography? not very much. i know that SLR cameras are amazing. i also know that it photography can be a very expensive hobby to get involved in.

What i want to learn about photography, is all of the technical things like aperture and ISO settings and all the schtuff like that. i also would like to know how to light scenes better with different lighting effects and all the goods to make professional looking pictures.