Assignment 1:

Post 3 images you reviewed (as listed above) on your blog and tell us why you chose the images and why you thought it could have been better and explain why. What might have you done differently with the ingredients listed above to improve the situation next time? You'll begin to have a whole new self-discovery to what's been missing in your image captures!



This photo, I feel, is my best food photo I have taken so far. I was shooting this by the window, which you can see in the background, in order to get some good natural light. I tried to fill the "frame" with the subject in order to minimalize the background as well as get a nice shot that was mouthwatering. I divide the picture into thirds, with the egg roll on its side as one third, the standing as another third, and the blank space as the final third. I wish I could have gotten a sharper edge to the filling, but the wrappers do look crisp.



I took this photo recently and was experimenting with my camera and the light. I was able to get a good shot in between breezes, so I'm glad it's a sharp image. If I were to take this shot again, I would try for a more interesting angle, though I like the group of three flowers with the one off to the side. The dead "heads" of the other flowers are a bit distracting as well. I need to figure out how to comtrol the white balance in direct sunlight, so that the whites aren't washed out or too bright for the other colors.




This is my favorite photo of a flower that I have taken. I captured it through a fence, using my optical zoom. I think I can even see moisture on a couple of the flowers. I would like to have been able to take some shots with the sun on the flowers, or at least with some light and shadow play in the picture. I think that the leaves give it a hide-and-seek effect, like you're peeking in on something. To me the thirds are diagonal: upper right is more background, the row of flowers makes up the middle third, and the leaves are the bottom third.