1	Final Portfolio By: Allie
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3	Rule of Thirds With rule of thirds you want the object to be off to the side. There is Imaginary lines to divide the image both horizontally and vertically. Place important elements of your picture where these lines intersect. Both of my pictures follow these rules with the fountain off to one side and then with the football field, the stadium is off to one side. You want to keep from centering objects that make the picture too blah.
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5	Framing Some guidelines include taking a picture by incorporating a frame into the image. Windows are one possibility, but you can also use the branches of a tree or any other object you can place in the foreground. I liked these pictures because I used a hole in a patio chair for one frame and then I used a window in a play house to take the one of the playground. You want your subject to be behind the frame instead of in front.
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7	Depth of Field Depth of field is the range of distance in a picture that is in sharp focus. When depth of field is short, only objects close to the subject appear sharply focused. With large depth of field, most objects in the picture are in focus. Both of my depth of field pictures are short depth of field. You could also classify them as in perspective. You want to take them where they either get smaller or bigger the farther back into the distance it goes. I did this with the piano and the fence.
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9	Perspective The word “perspective” means “point of view”. It means where you stand in relation to your subject. You want to take different angles and in ways that you wouldn’t normally look at things. I took an old truck from the side and I took a picture of the pony and made his body look smaller then his head. I just took the objects from a different perspective then normal.
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11	Colors of Light Every light source emits a particular hue. Candlelight gives you a scene with warm, reddish tones and a cloudy day gives a bluish tint. I did a sunset setting in my side mirror, which is still a little bit hard to see all the reds and yellows the sun was making. Also the CD gives off all the colors of a spectrum when shined into the sun or a light source of some kind.
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13	Lighting Lighting you want to try and capture reflections and things that have lots of light. You can have low lighting as well. My picture of the hallway shows the reflections of the light off the floor. Also my picture of the sun could be framing with tree branches as well as colors of light.
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15	Patterns/Textures Patterns can be found in nature as well as in architecture and on clothing. Textures can be found in nature, clothing and buildings. We have patterns in our world all around us. I have a blanket that shows the rainbow and then the patter of someone's shirt that is also a texture of felt. It feels soft and keeps you warm.
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17	Black and White In taking black and white pictures you want to consider the following; shape, lighting, contrast, texture, and tone. Black-and-white photographs have a way of conveying an antique look that you cant capture in color. Mine I didn’t take this semester but I took this summer when we went to the Grand Canyon. It also uses depth of field and textures.
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19	Architecture Changing the perspective and the angle of the camera can change the look of the building in your photograph. When taking these pictures you want to use all the rules you have learned. I used perspective and lighting to try and capture the church the best I could.
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21	Macro You use macro when you want to take little objects up close. You have to change to the macro setting on your camera. I took my moms ring and a sewing needle up really close. I also took the ends of magazines. I also used perspective and depth of field.
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23	Holiday Lights Holiday lights was really difficult to do. You have to set your camera really still to not bump and blur the picture. I took one of out tree and it was a little blurry but you can use it as color of lights as well. The other one just uses white light with the reindeer and the ice sickle lights.
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25	Photoshop Layers I learned a lot with layers in Photoshop this whole year. How you can make realistic pictures and artistic ones. I am showing my cartoon kids that I had with lots of layers and adjustment layers. I also learned how to change the backgrounds.