Landscape and Portrait Differences

This photo and the following photo share the same subject and background. However, this photo was taken in portrait mode with an f- stop of 5.0. The f-stop was high because the focus was on just the hand which is closer to the lense. You can clearly see the difference between this photo in portrait mode and the following photo. The hand in this photo came out more clear and the face is blurry although the depth of field is relatively small.

This photo was taken in landscape mode with and f-stop also of 5.0. Since this photo was taken in landscape mode, the foreground and background are both in mediocre focus. Also the lighting creates less of a focus on the hand as the photo taken in portrait.

Composition: Contrast

This photo shows a contrast by using light. The subject is standing sideways in a dark room with light coming through a window on her. This photo was set up and came out successfully. The shutter speed in this photo was 1/80 and the f-stop was 5.6.

This photo shows contrast by color. I set this photo up so that the black, dark shoes contrast with the bright, yellow flowers. This photo came out very successfully. The shutter speed in this photo was 1/30 and the f-stop was 5.6.

Facade Photos (Curtis High School)

This photo was taken with no flash with a shutter speed of 1/25. The focus of this picture was the two girls holding hands in the auditorium. This photo represents Curtis in a more emotional way because it shows the love and the unity between all the students here.

This photo was taken in Auto mode with a shutter speed of 1/320. The focus of this picture was the building itself. This represents Curtis in more of a physical manner and shows where you would be going to daily as a Curtis Warrior.

Night Portrait Mode

 This photo was very successful in night portrait mode. The picture was dark but you can clearly see the subject clearly and she is in focus.

This photo was also very successful. Surrounding the subject is dark but the area the subject is in lit and she is shown clearly.

Rule of Thirds

In both of these pictures I had the main subject in the left column of the grid in the viewfinder. The first photo I used an inanimate object with the background mostly empty, but clearly out of focus. In the second photo I had two people with a short distance in between them, but the closer subject was more in focus while the farther subject was out of focus. These photos were both very successful in conveying the rule of thirds.