Art of Composition - blog hop

Black and White - Lines, light and shadows

The last 12-weeks have given me a new perspective to my daily surroundings. I've discovered that our home, workplace, the city and the nature is filled with interesting lines, curves and textures  ... Wherever I look, there's something that captures my eye. Tracey Clarck's Art of Composition-online class has given a new and fresh insight in viewing the world!

We started with "the canvas": Paying attention to the things we find appealing in different images. From there the focus shifted to our own canvases, that is, what we are seeing through the camera lenses.

I have taken a whole bunch of photos, working with depth of field and negative space, to name a few of our themes. I've admired the captures of my classmates in the class gallery and learned a lot from them.

Contrast, lines, componental elements

The first picture in the beginning of this post is from the Black and White theme. Taking Black and White pictures is new to me - I have avoided it a bit, since I haven't really tried it before. Doing the class assignments showed me that Black and White photos have a  special way of conveying feelings and atmospheres. B & W pictures have an alert focus since they "denoise" some things creatíng harmony when the colors are gone - giving place to different shades, light and shadow.

Depth of Field
 

Depth of field is all about being attentive - where do you decide to focus in your photo. In the upper picture I've chosen to focus in the lower right part of the photo, that is, the silver earrings.
I found this assignment a bit challenging, since I do not have a SLR camera, but I found my way of capturing the depth of field. I've learned a whole lot of composing pictures, and about photography in general, in this course. I'm happy that everybody can join the course - also me with my little point and shoot camera :)


Negative space

The lesson on Negative space made an impression on me. Negative space refers to the place in your photo, where your eyes can rest, the positive space is there, where your subject matter is situated.

Negative space

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The assignments of the 12th week includes a series of 6 photos, where we could focus on the themes, that in special ways have taught us something (I'll post mine next week). The other assigment was to take 3 portraits.

Well, I have a thing with portraits. That goes way back to elementary school. We all have issues, and one of my issues was to be born with "thick lips" and high cheek bones. A nick name as "kiss lips" wasn't admiring when you were 8 -10 years old. I was assigned often to play the role of a doll in school theater plays - well, in short, I've learned to prefer portraits of my profil. One of the portrait is tough not a total profil ... trying to take a portrait was actually quite fun - as I wrote in the class gallery, my next class could be about how to shoot self portraits (smiling :)

Portrait

The other portrait is of my ear. Before this class I wouldn't have focused on just one part of the person when taking a portrait - or chopping / cropping a head of the subject - but I've learned that everything is possible!

This Art of Composition -blog hop is about cherishing the good time we've had in the class -
learning, shooting and sharing.

 

This blog hop works in a way that in the end of each post there's a link to the next post.

So, please visit Liz at Belles Belonging to see

her captures and thoughts about our 12-weeks adventure with Tracey Clark:

Belles Belongings


Thank you Tracey and all my fantastic classmates for the enriching 12-weeks!
And last but not least, I'm grateful to Rebecca and Kristi from Nurture Photography,
I won this course from a giveaway in the Nurture Photography Fall Challenge 2012!

Nina
 

 

 

 

The participants in the Art of Composition - blog hop:

 

Margie Nihao, Cupcake

Diana    The Studio 56

Nina     Thoughts and Images Along the Way

Liz      Belles Belongings