Sports Photo

It was a 200 mm lens with a shutter speed of 1/640 and an aperture of f/2.8.

The fast shutter speed allowed him to get the player in the air without very much blur.

The large aperture meant a short depth of field as the whole background is out of focus.

Avoiding Mergers

The photographer did a good job avoiding mergers with other workers and debris.

Framing

The wreckage in the foreground frames all of the wreckage in the backkground.

Balance

The three kids create a triangle which is important when creating balance.

Lines

The framing of the window is obvious and runs through the whole photo.

The Rule of Thirds

The building runs in the center and the paper is close to the intersection of the bottem and left thirds.

Simplicity

The focus is obvious and there is not much going on in the background.

Photo Printing

First the photos had to be cleaned by sticking the negative in the Photoflow for 20 seconds and then carefully washing it off. Then you take the negative, slide it ito the tray, and load the tray into the enlarger. After focusing the image with your eye, you have have to use a grain focuser which focuses the image as much as it possibly can. Then you rip a sheet of photo paper to create a test strip, you try 4 different exposure times to see which looks the best. You take what you learned from the test strip and apply it to the real photo then develop it.

Black and White Photos

Margaret Bourke-White

Roy DeCarava

Ansel Adams