Zak Parmley's Photography: Project 2: Framing and Composition

For this project, I had identify different techniques of framing. This includes Rule of Thirds to Filling The Frame. While traveling around downtown Portland, I looked for unusual angles that demonstrated the required crops and tried to find the most unique things that popped out at me. When choosing the final edits, I chose the photos with the most dramatically changed photos, and most accurately cropped and composed photo. The first photo (Rule of Thirds), I saw these two geometric doors next to the Portland Art Museum. These doors are beautifully colored, and I edited the light to be more dramatic and dark. The second photo (Frame Within a Frame), was a fire truck's chrome tire that reflected my feet and the colors swirled around the edges of the tires. I then edited the color and vibrance with intensifying the saturation and sharpening the picture with changing the hue a bit. The third photo (Close Up) is of a statue at the Portland Art Museum. I edited the photo by desaturating the color, intensifying the blacks, and adding a slight blue tint (almost unnoticeable). The fourth photo (Birds Eye View), is also of a statue in the art museum's courtyard. I edited the color of the shadows to be a blue-green color, and saturated contrast color of the statue, I really like how it turned out. The fifth photo (Bugs Eye View), is of an interesting angle of a building that I was fascinated by the architecture. I then edited it by tilting the photo, tightening the crop, and adding the the hue of deep blue and magenta. So it really pops out. The sixth photo (Leading Lines) was the geometric pattern of the museum's courtyard floor. For editing, I desaturated the color and darkened the background to create more dimension. For the seventh photo (Diagonal), I captured the diagonal line of the museum's outside structure. For editing, I effected the hue and created a vintage-like filter. Lastly, the eighth photo (Filling The Frame), is of the top of a stair well downtown. For editing, I intensified the saturation and made the color pop.