Working The Shot

For this set of photographs I took a shot at "working the shot" and aimed to create the perfect angle for my photographs (I didn't really intend to make these terrible puns but oh well). I used photography techniques of cropping, rule of thirds, viewpoint, balancing effect, and background throughout these photographs to capture the ever so exciting images of my fitbit watch using the right kind of framing. 

This is an image of my fitbit watch taken from regular eye-level angle. Basically it's just a regular old photo of stuff laying on my bed - nothing too interesting. 

There is a lot of whitespace in this image that I would eliminate using the cropping method to really hone in on the object that I want to be the subject of my photograph. In this image, the fitbit watch isn't really defined and the excess space takes away from the subject of the photo. Moving forward I would crop the bottom half of the photo out to focus in on fitbit.

For this image I tried my hand at using the rule of thirds. I tried lining the fitbit up with what I imagined to be the first column of vertical lines as well as the third row of horizontal lines if there was a grid over the photo. 

For this image I employed the strategies of viewpoint to move in on the subject matter of my photograph and highlight it as the main part of my photo. Rather than just taking the photograph at eye-level I moved in closer and took it from a side angle.

For this image I used the balancing effect to balance out the empty space of the notebook by adding a pair of scissors in the back left side of the photograph. I think it added dimension to the photograph and balanced space nicely. 

In this image I noticed took the approach of pointing out what was bring with the image. The background is very busy and takes away from the photograph. It bothers me that you can see the clutter of my bathroom sink as well as the tag of my notebook in the background and moving forward I would most definitely eliminate these aspects from the image. 

Overall there isn't really anything exciting about these photographs and I'll be the first to admit I probably could have chosen a more interesting object. I did find it interesting watching the dynamic of the photograph change as I moved through using the different techniques described in the reading such as cropping, rule of thirds, viewpoint, balancing effect, and background.  

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