Citizen Jane Film Festival

The Lupus Chili Festival

The following nine photos were taken in Lupus Missouri at their annual Chili Fest. I took close to 200 photos at the festival but I chose these nine for two reasons. The first being that I feel like they are well composed interesting photos, but more importantly I felt like they captured the mood of the festival.

Framing Part Three

This is the example of a bad framing of my word. I think it is taken from to far back and you dont really know where to focus.
This is a more successful example of my word. The image fits the frame well and it leads your eye around the picture.

Framing Part Two

This is the unsuccessful atempt at framing an object. I feel like the flower being so low in the frame makes the image very bottom heavy and hard to move around.
I feel this one is more successful because the petals help you to move around the picture and the leaves and vines create a good contrast to the pink/purple of the flower.

Framing Part One

Above is my example of a poor framing job. The bridge seems slanted and the sky takes up to much of the picture.


These two are my successful examples for the framing exercise. I was trying to focus on lines and angles and how they relate to the frame. I feel these are stronger then the first image because they do a better job of leading your eye around the picture and maintaining interest.

Prepare a Photo for Critique

I decided to focus my attention on line and focus. I will arrange the objects (this will be still life photography) in a way that will show my attention to line and take the shots in a way that will focus on certain parts of the scene and not others. Here are the three photos I chose:







Photographs one and three both have very strong usage of line, while photographs two and three show concentration on focus. The third photo of the dagger was not as successful as the other two. I think this was because of the lighting and the way it reflected off the hilt on to the blade. I really like the texture shown in both the velvet that the objects are laying on and the stones in two of the pics. The elliptical mouth of the goblet is a good way of attracting your attention to the image and then helps to lead your eye around it. The cracks and impurities in the stones are also very interesting and the lines made by their outlines help to guide you around the picture plane. The dark background is a good contrast for the light objects and helps them pop.