Light 1: Outside

Light 2: Inside

Foreground In Focus

Background In Focus

Composition 1 – Thirds

Composition 2 – Lead Room

This assignment was a lot of fun. I did learn a lot about taking photos and how to better use my camera. I do have to take photos of office spaces etc at times for my job to put them onto websites. Most people have no idea what a good photo is and how to enhance it with Photoshop. This assignment gave me a few more ideas to use.

All of the images except the office lobby are from my own property. With 5 horses, we live on 5 acres of land. The office lobby is from a dental office that I updating the website for. I took close to 200 photos trying to get the focus correct for the foreground/background focus shots and that was not easy.  To get the focus shots correct, I had to turn on the Macro option on my camera and it took close to 50 photos before I learned how to do it semi-correctly. I still need to practice with that.

The focus shots are of one of the barrels we use for training the horses to obey the reins and turn when we want them to. The image of my grandson is in that area where the barrels are.

The thirds line image is lined up on the telephone pole piece with the old wagon wheel and road sign on either side.