Elements and Principles Slide Show

I really enjoyed this week of taking pictures and trying to brainstorm on what to take pictures of and how to take them. The pictures I had the most trouble with were unity and shape, I just could not think of anything.  For the most part I had to create the picture that I wanted and for some such as texture, space and line I just saw the picture come to life before my eyes.  I did use some techniques to edit each picture, cropping and changing exposure, sharpness and contrast on a lot of them.  My favourite picture by far is the balance picture.  I just said to myself what do I think of when I think of balance, how do I balance, then it came to me...tree pose.  And then I thought that instead of just having a boring picture of me doing tree pose why don't I make it asymmetrical where I have a real tree at one side of the photo and myself in tree pose on the other side.  And it worked, I really liked the outcome of that picture.  A couple of the photos I had taken in the past such as colour, value and emphasis.  Colour and value I had previously taken in Hawaii this summer and I knew right away that they were ones that I could use, especially the Hawaiian flower for colour.  Emphasis was taken last weekend at a concert and I really enjoyed editing this picture to bring out the colour of my lipstick, my eyes, his skin and shirt, I like how with everything going on around us I was able to play with he shadows and highlights and make it like it was just him and I and nothing around us.  For unity I am Canadian and I was sitting there trying to think of something for unity the it came to me, I grabbed my hockey stick, my boyfriends skate and my Canadian winter stuff and created a picture that fit together, to someone else it may not seem to fit together but to me, its perfect.  For variety I was just getting ready one day and thought how cool a picture would look with my new red high heels and most of the things I use to get ready if I was to wear those shoes and it came together.  For space I was just sitting in my car the other day and saw a lone seagull standing on the light post looking around and noticed how much space he had around him, I edited the picture so you could see his outline better and I think it made it much more appropriate.  For movement I was originally going to use a fan but, my fan was not powerful enough so I had to use my blow dryer.  I like how nothing else in the photo appears to be moving though except my hair.  For line I noticed one day when I was walking to class how the bark on the trees around campus seems to be in groups of lines and then I took the picture and it seemed to work. Overall I enjoyed this project and I never noticed how much I enjoyed photography!
The link to the slide show is:
Link To Slide Show of Pictures
the password is: hockey5