This photo may be the best photograph I was able to captured within the given time period given to us. The light that was available indoors throughout the first and second floors of the school did not provide that many opportunities to capture a good photograph. However, after returning to the classroom and having the subject pose next to the window was I able to create a decent photograph. Using the natural light that was leaking in through the window and without the use of a reflector I directed the subject to look out the window to make it look like he was contemplating something in an attempt to give this photograph some meaning. Afterwards, I bought it into Lightroom and tried to make the photograph overall darker to give it a more serious tone.

I was drawn into this photo because it looked like it was a piece of art or a realistic painting rather than a photograph. I thought it as a great artist or painter who created this piece of work, but it is a photograph taken by Krzysztof Browko, a landscape photographer. I feel what makes it a great photograph is the movement that could be seen with the shadows and lights on the landscape. The contrast from the light green at the top with the dark green at the bottom of the photograph is another reason what makes it a great photograph. There must have been some careful calculations in setting the ISO, aperture and time to capture this photograph this way. Also, Browko effectively used the rule of thirds by sort of framing the trees and landscape which results in this great photograph.

Dali Atomicus

Philippe Halsman

1948

This photograph was able to capture everything in what it could be considered a sharp focus during that time. While it may seem like time has been frozen in the picture, in reality, all of the subjects were in motion which often comes out a bit blurry.  However, this photograph was only managed to be taken only after 26 times and with a couple of assistants, too. As a result of the approach taken to get that moment down onto a photograph, subjects were able to be captured in a sharp focus even while moving and that there was a promotion of involvement between between photographer and subject.