Balance rule

This photo shows the balance rule because thereare 6 guys in the photo. 2 giuys are holding their hats, 2 guys are standing normal, and the last 2 guys are on the outsides of the pictures and half their body is cut off. All guys are wearing the same thing so that also displays balance too.

Rule of thirds rule

This photo displays rules of thirds because the stoplight is in the middle box on the top row and the middle box on the middle row. I think the photographer chose to place the spotlight there so he or she could capture the scene and what all was in the scene. The sky is orange and blue and filled with smoke, the buildings are dark and cluttered, and the stoplight is just sitting calmly in this photo.

Simplicity rule

This photo shows simplicity because the background isnt all cluttered and distracting, and you can clearly see that the building is on fire and producing smoke in the air. The sky is clear and there are no distracting images in the back.

Red, metal, grumpy photos(:

Best "red" photo ^

Best "metal" photo ^

I think this photo shows framing, because theres no cluttered background.

Best "grumpy" photo ^

Great black and white photographers PART 2

Emmet Gowin is an american photographer. He was born in 1941 in Danville, Virginia. He graduated from Richmond Professional Institute in 1965. After graduating, he attended the Rhode Island School of Design. While earning his MFA, he studied under influential American photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. He retired from teaching at Princeton University at the end of 2009, and lives with his wife Edith in Pennsylvania. He started to gain attention from his portraits of his wife and family. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1979, and Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 1994. He has posted multiple books, one titled "Emmet Gowin: Photographs", and another one titled "Emmet Gowin: changing the earth : aerial photographs".

Bastrop Fire Photo

This photo impacted me the most because it's so sad. Someone's house is getting burned down and there's nothing they can do about it. I feel sad when I see this photo because the fire is so big and its only getting bigger, and the firefighters are trying to fight this fire but they can't seem to contain it, so now over 600 homes burned down, and a bunch of people are homeless because of the fire.

"The Camera" Assignment

Viewfinder-  A viewfinder is what the photographer looks through to compose, and in many cases to focus, the picture.

Parallax- Parallax is an apparent displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.

Autofocus- An autofocus (or AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system, and a motor to focus fully automatic or on a manually selected point or area.

Pixel- In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, (picture element) is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of a picture that can be represented or controlled.

                                                    (The inside of a camera.)
Aperture- In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane.

Shutter- In photography, a shutter is a device that allows light to pass for a determined period of time, for the purpose of exposing photographic film or a light-sensitive electronic sensor to light to capture a permanent image of a scene.

Exposure- In photography, exposure is the total density of light allowed to fall on the photographic medium (photographic or image sensor) during the process of taking a photograph. Exposure is measured in lux seconds, and can be computed from exposure value (EV) and scene luminance over a specified area.

Depth of field- In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

F-stop- In optics, the f-number (sometimes called focal ratio, f-ratio, f-stop, or relative aperture) of an optical system expresses the diameter of the entrance pupil in terms of the focal length of the lens; in simpler terms, the f-number is the focal length divided by the "effective" aperture diameter.

Focal length- The focal length of an optical system is a measure of how strongly the system converges (focuses) or diverges (defocuses) light.

                                         (The Canon Rebel T3.)

The buttons I see on this camera are the shutter button and the flash button.

Shutter button- In photography, the shutter-release button (sometimes just shutter release or shutter button) is a button found on many cameras, used to take a picture.

Flash button- A flash button is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light (typically 1/1000 to 1/200 of a second) at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene.