Below I've listed my eight best photographs that represent the following techniques: bug's eye, bird's eye, frame within a frame, filling the frame, diagonals, leading lines, rule of thirds, and close up. Everything was shot in downtown Portland (except for bug's eye).
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| Bug's Eye |
The world of my dog and her ball is something I will never come to understand. I decided to place her tennis ball directly underneath her to show the size comparison. However, I tried to make the ball look as large as possible to make the viewer feel even smaller next to the ball and the dog. Lily (my dog), is passionately looking at the ball, which leaves viewer feeling like a bug.
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| Close Up |
When I originally took this close up in the Park Blocks, I didn't think of it as anything too special. After editing and adjusting the color scheme and luminance, I found that I could make the flower look frosty and cold. I think it's an interesting dynamic because on the one hand the flower is very beautiful, but on the other it represents a cold and alone world for the viewer.
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| Diagonals |
You'd be crazy to go onto the Tilikum crossing and not take any pictures of diagonals. Coming onto the bridge, I had a lot of different ideas. I decided take this photo this way because I think the blank sky forces the viewer to look at what I want them to look at, beams coming down from the pillar. I think the design of the bridge is something that has to be highlighted - it almost looks like an old fashioned fan, the way the diagonals come down.
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| Bird's Eye |
As I walked through the Pioneer Place skybridge, I noticed that my reflection made it look like I was some sort of giant on top of the cars. I realized that by appearing that way directly above all the cars, I looked extra terrestrial. I then added a blue and futuristic feeling to the photo to finalize the abstract look.
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| Rule of Thirds |
With all the old buildings in downtown Portland, one can find it a heaven for taking black and white photography. I knew coming in that many of the buildings would fit the black and white look because that's what color the buildings would've been in, back when they were built. Originally, this photo had too much of a shadow, and it was too wide. I decided to crop it accordingly and turn down the shadows, which got me this.
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| Leading Lines |
The minute I saw this building I knew it would be a leading lines. But as the photographer, I needed to use that to my advantage. I decided to go black and white again because from this perspective the building looked dystopian and scary. I turned up the shadows a lot so that it looked like there was no entry point to the building, and so that the viewer was led over to the building itself, not what was under it. Unlike my other black and white, this doesn't represent something old, it represents a place where the leader of some empire would live.
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| Filling the Frame |
For this photograph, I knew that to highlight the majority of the frame, I would need to turn down the grass in the background. I liked how this looked like an uncovered artifact in some Indiana Jones movie. I decided to turn down the green saturation and luminance, and then adjust the "artifact" accordingly. It turned out like this, and I like how the grass looks somewhat dead and the center of attention is the middle of the photograph.
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| Frame Within a Frame |
My main goal in this photograph was to highlight the star of David and the buildings around it. Using the triangle design in the fence, I think I was able to do so. I made the sky and background black and white, and then I adjusted the luminance. I think it gives off a weird outlining feeling, between the triangle around the triangular building, and the blurry lines going around the roof tops.
