3.1

For this blog entry I had to choose a picture and then edit it in iPhoto to show a new perspective of it.  I chose a photo done by Ben Goosen, because he is a pretty crazy artist. I chose the owl and chair photo because it was unusual but also pretty normal at the same time. It had a lot of linear lines in it that drew your eyes just about everywhere. Your eye gets led across the photo by the diagonal lines made by the edges of the box. There are also a lot of lines in the chair too. Those lines frame the owl up and also point directly to him. It is also one of the only points of interest in the piece. The only difference between my edited picture and his original, is that I cropped mine about 30% or so. It was a pretty wide shot in the original. I wouldn’t say it was wide enough for an establishing shot but I would say wider than the normal wide shot. I brought it in to a tighter wide shot and took out some of the background. It is quite humorous too that I took it in 30% because of the 30° rule. I also thought that with the poor resolution of the image when I got it, I would just keep from cropping too much to loose quality. I did loose some quality but I countered that with framing the owl on the second point of interest according to the rule of thirds. If you were to cut the frame into a tick-tack-toe board you would see that the owls head and eyes rest on the second intersecting line. This is something that I like to do with everything that involves framing because it gives you a good looking image and a pretty evenly weighted frame.