Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Kill Your Darlings, Fibonacci

1.  It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to construct my photos.  After experimenting a little bit with composition I figured out what I wanted my photos to look like.

2.  I found it really hard to incorporate the Fibonacci ratio in my photos.  When I did use them, I focused too much on constructing the photo are around the ratio that the composition and mood left something to be desired.  I found it so much easier to make a successful photo when I thought more about how I could bring out the subject's geometry through perspective rather than picking up the viewfinder and trying to find something that fits in it.

3.  I tried to communicate the feeling of solitude and sense of isolation or distance.  I like how some of my photos look like they were taken from a hiding spot (stairs, bike, stream photos)or set away form the action (stop sign photo).

4.  One of the darlings I killed was a picture of an orchid with three stems that made a kind of fleur de ;ys shape.  The idea was kind of cool, but the picture itself is out of focus and the dark stairs in the background are distracting.  It turned out to be not a very successful picture.

5.  While my stairs photo fits the group's collection nicely in that it incorporates both the indoors and outdoors and has high contrast, the rough texture and detail of the ferns in the background set it apart from the softness of the other photos.






6.  My peers really like my stairs picture.  I agree with this.  However they didn't like my stop sign picture or my fresh fish banner picture nearly as much as I do. I think those two are some of the strongest photos of me collection.