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The first picture is my favorite one in this post. I really like the way that it looks like she was in the middle of a movement, yet the picture isn’t blurry, and everything came out really clear. The composition of the picture is really good too; not too many distractions or empty space. The pictures on the book shelf are really the only things that seem out of place to me. The books I like though, because it adds context to the picture and a lot of colors and textures, yet the books are far enough away where you can’t make out individual books, so they aren’t distracting.

In the second image the pictures in the background on the bookshelf were more of a distraction than in the first, so I made the picture black and white to try and keep them from being too distracting. The two kids in the image are what make the picture, because they both have perfect smiles and are looking at the camera, and it looks like a moment frozen in time, a picture that would be really hard to capture again. The picture is a little dark and lacks a lot of contrast shades of gray, but the most important part, the subjects, are well lit.

The last picture I liked as it was because all the empty space kind of implied a mood of thinking or wondering, because of the way Tyler’s gazing somewhere to the side of the camera, and sitting in a huge chair. As it was though, the picture was too tall and narrow that it became kind of annoying, so I copied it three times to make it closer to the usual picture size, and then decided to change the hues on each one to make it more interesting and thought provoking. I think the original picture could’ve used more saturation though, because after adjusting the hues none of the tones were really bright or stood out as much as I would’ve liked. Still, I think the image still holds true to its intended purpose and is visually appealing, and I’m pretty happy with it.