Color, Texture, and Depth of Field

This is the first half of our "Vocabulary of Photography" assignment. For this week, we took photos focusing on color, texture, and depth of field. Like the last assignment, we should take into consideration composition, creativity, lighting, and what story the photograph tells; we should take these into consideration in addition to the focus on each vocabulary terms, and what they mean in photography. The color and texture pictures were taken with a cell phone camera, as we had not received our "Rebel" cameras yet, but the depth of field pictures were taken with the "Rebel".

Color

For this photograph, I wanted to capture the color of the leaves and the different hues they take on when they are layered and the light shows through them; from a dark, forest green, to a very light spring green.  The play of the light and shadow also highlight the shape of each leaf and where they are layered, creating a calming mood.  Some criticism from my professor, Bill Zuback, was that maybe I would want to rotate the image 180 degrees so that the lighter portion of the photograph is toward the sky, as that gives a feeling of being uplifted.

Texture

The important part about this photograph is to emphasize not only that an object possesses texture, but that texture is demonstrated by how the lighting hits the object, highlighting the depth of the texture, creating a third dimension to a normally 2 dimensional medium. I liked how the the lighting that was used on this building on the Carroll campus highlighted the the interesting texture the building had within its bricks and above and below the windows. Photographing a building can be tough, as you are trying to make a work of art of an already existing work of art, but the feedback from Bill was that I had done well on that aspect as well as capturing the texture the building has.

Extended Depth of Field

Shallow Depth of Field

These are two photographs I took of some rose bushes near the athletic fields on the Carroll campus. The first has and extended depth of field, which means that everything in the picture is in focus.  The second picture is of the same rose bush, but I focused only on one rose, leaving the rest of the picture out of focus. The shallow depth of field is a great tool in photography which one can use to highlight something in a picture to emphasize the focal point.