Assignment 1

midday_juxtaposition

I placed the woods to occupy the whole frame, because I want to let my viewers know that my topic was right in those woods. That was a sunny day when I was taking this photo, so the sunshine came through towards my camera from the spaces among those trees,which made the juxtaposition of those trees more obvious. So I used the adjustment brush to make those lights brighter, to highlight my prompt.
I found juxtaposition among those trees, so I chose to shoot them. The sunshine during midday helped me a lot to make the picture much better. The trees might be the main actor in this photo, but I would like to make sunshine as the leader role, either.
The juxtaposition made those trees seemed formal or boring, but I found if I draw my attention onto the sunshine rather than those trees, it become not so boring at all. Sometimes it is interesting if we judge something from a different point of view.
The students in class interpreted this photo as juxtaposition and they noticed the midday light topic as well.
Based on the critique, I believed the midday light topic had been conveyed, but for juxtaposition, I need to adjust the horizon to make it much more obvious.
For extention, I could make a series of photos of different groups of woods at different place and under different light situation. 

indoor_transparency

I placed the camera very close to the water, ignoring all the others. The only thing I want to show in this photo was just that little pool of water. I used the adjustment brush to blur the part of table without water, and then made the value of clarity of the water part 100%.
When I saw the prompt "transparency", the first thing popping out in my mind was water. I guess it is the most appropriate representative of transparency. In order to show it well, I made this photo just focus on water, but nothing else.
With the use of adjustment brush at the parts around the pool of water, it was hard to know where the pool of water was on. But, just because of the transparency of the water, it was possible for us to see right through the water
what was covered by it.
My classmates were guessing was was the liquid thing in the photo, someone thought that looked like a piece of glass. By saying this, I believe "transparency" was conveyed.
Part of the water was blured, because I put the camera too close to it. So if I reshoot this photo, I will adjust the distance between my camera and the water.
To extend this piece, I am interested in taking photos of water on different materials, and see how they look if we see them through the water.

zoom_symbolic

I zoomed my camera to the most to make the statue occupy almost the whole frame. In the background, I chose an angle that the trees behind the statue were dark green. Finally I used the adjustment brush to make the value of contract on the Spartan much higher.
This statue must be the most symbolic thing in MSU. I was trying to show that he is very essential for us, so I chose to use some dark-colored trees instead of the sky as the background, making him the brightest thing in the photo,
For MSU, the Spartan could be a symbol of our spartan spirit. With the consider of this, I focused my idea on how to to show his importance. After highlighting him in my photograph, I made something looked like a halo surrounding him.
Through the discussing of the frame of this photo, I believe that I did well with the "zoom" prompt. Also my viewers had noticed that, in order to show "symbolic", I focused the Spartan by make it bright on a dark background.
If I redo this prompt, I will shoot the statue from all possible angles.
I'm curious about what is the symbolic stuff of other universities, maybe I will try to may a set of symbols of some other colledges.