Portraits and Landscapes

1. A Child's Joy
2. Playa Puntarenas, Costa Rica (Puntarenas Beach)
3. This demonstrates a good portrait, angles, lighting, and asymmetry. This is a good portrait because it's a candid, and you can feel the laughter and personality in this photo. This photo was actually taken from a lower angle. My sister, Zoe, is very small (like really really really small), so to make her seem like an average sized child, I took it at a lower angle. Not necessarily because I want to warp your perception of her, but because I wanted to play around with them. This demonstrates good lighting because even though it's black and white, the lighting is not directly in her face causing harsh shadows, even though this was taken at noon. This demonstrates asymmetry because the subject is off center and is telling a story.

1. A Peaceful Vista
2. Mira Mar, Costa Rica
3. This demonstrates  good landscape. There is not one particular subject, there is good color contrast, RoT, and good lighting. There is only a little bit of editing done, only because my camera doesn't do this scenery justice.

1. Wishful thinking
2. El Mojon, Costa Rica
3. This demonstrates a good portrait with good landscape. It also demonstrates asymmetry. 

Experiments in Lighting

1. Jungle Sunrise (taken at 5:30 am)
2. El Mojon, Costa Rica
3. This picture demonstrates good lighting. It's soft, cool, and not too harsh. It also demonstrates a bit of rule of thirds.

1. Rainless Sky (taken at 1:14 pm)

2. El Mojon, Costa Rica

3. This photo demonstrates bad lighting, because it's too harsh. It kind of hurts my eyes and makes it hard to pick out details. 

1. Radiant Sky (taken at 5:16 pm)

2. El Mojon, Costa Rica

3. This photo demonstrates good lighting. The colors and light are warm (with a hint of cool in the blue sky), and it's very pleasing and relaxing. 

1. Giants in the Sky (can you guys tell I like the sky?)

2. El Mojon, Costa Rica

3. This photo demonstrates bad lighting. It's too harsh, and makes the colors in the photo look very dingy and bland. It's too highlighted that it makes it hard to focus. However, it also demonstrates RoT.

1. Wonders Upon Wonders
2. Mira Mor, Costa Rica
3. This photo demonstrates good lighting (not too much, not too little; gives good highlights and provides contrast). It also demonstrates color, background, and asymmetry.

Midterm Project: Best Picture Ever!

1. Children's play
2. El Mojon, Costa Rica
3. This photo uses color, background, balance,and rule of thirds. The rule of thirds is the green grass, then the shoes/socks, then the rest of the leg. The background is the space between the two subjects and the greenery in the back, and the color is the red on green and black on green. The color of the Children's legs also gives the entire photo a nice warm feel. It is balanced because there is equal on both sides.

1. Rising Above

2. Volcan Arenal, Costa Rica

3. This photo demonstrates framing, rule of thirds,color, and leading lines. The leading lines are the trees directly in front of the volcano (vertical, which gives the feeling of strength and dignity). The Rule of Thirds is the meadow/trees, the Volcano, and then the sky and clouds. The framing is the clouds framing the volcano around it. The color is the green, blue and white, all cool colors with no warm, giving off a strong/relaxed emotion. 

1. The Hippie Life
2. El Mojon, Costa Rica
3. This photo uses Pattern, Lighting, Color, and Asymmetry. The blue, purple, green, and black colors and very pleasing to the eye (mostly warm with the occasional cool, mostly the blue). The pattern is pretty obvious, with the peace sign interrupting it. The peace sign is also asymmetry, which tells something. The story here is that the peace sign is actually a photobomb, but I loved it XD.

Framing and Viewpoint

1. This photo is called "The Side You Don't See."

2. El Mojon, Costa Rica

3. This demonstrates interesting viewpoint. You never really see the underside of the flower, and so when this flower was turned away from me, facing the sun, I immediately took a photo. Your eye is immediately drawn to the bright pink of the flower, and also because it's differentl 

1. This photo is called "53089".
2. El Mojon, Costa Rica
3. This picture is of our Family's landlord's old and broken Land Rover. It demonstrates interesting perspective because only some of the license plate is in focus, while the rest is blurred out. When you originally look at a car, you don't focus on a license plate, but that's what I did here.

1. This photo is called "Frame upon Frame".

2. El Mojon, Costa Rica

3. This photo demonstrates good framing because there are three frames here. The walkway fence that frames the overhang, and the overhang that frames the intricate door. The lighting, color, and balancing are also good.  

Patterns and Backgrounds

1. This photo doesn't really have a name.

2. University of Peace, Costa Rica

3. Good background. The red and green compliment each other, but because the green is more of a dull green, your eyes are mostly drawn to the bright red. 

1. Bad everything. 

2. University of Peace, Costa Rica

3. This demonstrates bad background because you have a super dull green background that doesn't compliment the green/red/orange flowers and butterfly, because your attention is immediately drawn to my younger sister in the background. 

1. A Jungle Leaf

2. University of Peace, Costa Rica

3. This demonstrates pattern because the leafs on this fern branch are perfect and uniform, creating an appealing pattern.