That's What I Love About Sunday's...

In the second photograph, I was lucky enough to be hiking around noon this past Sunday, enabling me to get some scenic photographs. I tried to use what we have learned in class- about having anything centered in the picture- and capture the "edges" of the frame of my photo. This picture was taken on Whiteside Mountain, located about an hour and a half from Clemson. At the time that I was taking the picture, I was standing on the edge of a cliff, overlooking another side of the same mountain that I was standing on (right side of the photo). I didn't want to have a very obvious focus. Naturally, the background is coated with mountainous image, but there are several different focuses to my photo. I really wanted the photo to be about the beautiful green side of the mountain that I am overlooking, while still capturing the delicate background. It worked our perfectly that the side of the mountain pictured in the right side of the photo was slopping downward, so it gave the photo that effect that we talked about in class where one object or action in the picture is falling down or climbing up the side of the photo, taking away from anything being centered. Without that mountainside on the right, I think the photo would be centered on the mountain range in the background. This photograph was actually taken first.

The photograph pictured at the top was actually taken several moments after the first one. I quickly hiked down a short trail in the direction of the mountainside pictured in the previous photograph, so I am now standing closer to the background in the first picture. I tried out the same technique from before with capturing a "slope" from one side of the picture. It wasn't until I got back to my computer and looked at the photographs on the computer screen that I realized that I actually captured that top of a tree in the lower left-hand corner of the photograph. I thought that treetop was an interesting addition to photograph not only because it added color, as did the closer side of the mountain (pictured on the right), but also because it obtained that "lower, bottom-half of the picture" frame that we also learned about. The same mountain range background is in this picture, but the entire bottom half of the photo has shape instead of just the right side of the photograph. When I realized that I did this, I thought it would be neat to see the two photographs, one on top of the other. I wish that I could have gotten more sky color at the top of each photograph, but either it was very clear up in the mountains or I just don't have the best of cameras.

I hope that I was able to correctly do what we talked about in class. After seeing Professor H's examples, I tried to mimick what he did with offsetting a center image and focusing on what the frame of the photograph could bring out in the overall picture.