academics

 The picture that was my favorite was the one that got first place in Academics and Community Service. The one with the student pouring two chemicals into a beaker. This one was my favorite because I like how where the student is pouring is right smack in the center to grab attention to the middle of the photo. I also like how the outside edges are kind of blurred off to show more of a focus towards where the action is taking place.

     This picture uses a few rules of photography. The most evident one is balance, there is almost complete symmetry of the two beakers on each side of the picture. There is also framing and avoiding mergers. The blurring of the outer edges not only separates the foreground and background, it also avoided the merging of alike colors and shapes of the objects and student.

     I could probably take photos like these maybe in a classroom or somewhere where there is an academic event is taking place. I probably wouldn't know exactly what classroom where I would want to shoot, but maybe somewhere that there is some kind of action going on.

     As a photographer that wants to be able to take amazing pictures, I would have to practice and try to get my own style that is unique and will be able to get the attention from others that will think that my work is interesting. I will definitely need to have to follow the rules of photography, but in a way that no one has followed them exactly, making my work different.