Final Exam Study Guide

1. Click "server drives" on the desktop then "my computer". Go to jstudents, then photojournalism and click your class period and your name .
2. A blog is like a journal/diary that is able to be seen in public on the internet. We use blogging in this class to write things we know, learn, and want to show others. It's a good way to publicly to show information you'd like to share.
3-4. You need a oatmeal can, photo paper, thin piece of aluminum, tape, xacto knife, needle, and sand paper. The pinhole is like the lens of the camera. Poke a tiny hole in the aluminum with a needle and trim the aluminum so there is a little space around the hole. The oatmeal can must be light proof. When the lid is on and the shutter is closed the inside has to be completely dark. The only light that comes in is through the pinhole. Make sure there are no holes or openings in the box. Seal it and paint it flat black. Cut a small square opening in the can for the pinhole to go in. Tape the pinhole behind the square opening. Center the pinhole in the square. Then make the shutter, which is just a flap that covers the pinhole from the outside and can be made with more tape. This must be done in complete darkness. Tape a piece of photo paper to the inside of the box across from the hole. Put the lid on and make sure the shutter is closed. Now you can go out in the light.Point the camera at what you want to shoot. Hold shutter open for 30 seconds, then close. Everything has to stay perfectly still. Go back to the dark room and take paper out to develop.
5. a. Rule of thirds: Image is divided into 9 equal segments by 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines.
b. Balancing elements: Subject of the picture is off from the center, but should be balanced by putting some "weight" on the opposite side to even it out.
c. Leading lines: Straight, diagonal, zigzag, curvy lines that draw our eyes "into" the picture and enhances the photographs composition.
d. Symmetry and patterns: Can be like repeated objects in the picture, along the same way or scattered around, sometimes made intentionally or also by accident but still looks good.
e. Viewpoint: Photographing from different angles such as from above, the ground, side, back, from a long way away, from very close up, and so on.
f. Background: Trying to use a plain and unobtrusive background and compose your shot so that it doesn't distract or detract from the subject.
g. Depth: You can create depth in a photo by including objects in the front, middle and back, and also by overlapping, where you partially obscure one object with another.
h. Framing: Objects that make natural frames, such as trees, archways and holes by placing these around the edge of the composition, it helps to isolate the main subject from the rest of the shot. The result is a more focused image that draws your eye naturally to the main point of the subject.
i. Cropping: 
Eliminating the background 'distractions', ensuring the subject gets the viewer's undistracted attention.
j. Mergers and avoiding them: taking photographs and trying to avoid a "distracting" background that looses the subjects' main focus.
6. Action and emotion impact a photograph by giving it a more "live" sensation when you see it. If you see a picture of a band performing, the feelings will most likely be excitement and nervousness. You might also sense as if the people are moving around, playing they're instruments.
7. A photo can "tell a story" all depending on what's taking place in the picture. The subject and details can kind of give off what the he/she wants the viewer to notice.
8. Multimedia is the integration of multiple forms of media ex. a presentation involving audio and video clips.
9. First sentence includes major information about the photo (who, what, where, when, why, how). First sentence should be written in present tense as if the action of the photo is still happening. Second sentence should be past tense, and should include background information. Information in caption should not be obvious by looking at the photo.If there are 3 or fewer recognizable people in the photo, you must give all of their names.Use strong action verbs whenever possible.
10. To know whats going on in the picture, like what's happening.
11. Fashion photography is different becasue they change the picture taken unlike photography; you take the picture and make sure its going to be the picture for what its going to be.
12. Portrait is of another person and self portrait is a picture of yourself.
13. A good portrait should be in focus, have good exposure, and uses the composition rules.

14. Newspaper is when photographers are expected to write, but if they attend multiple photography assignments the writing can be limited. Yearbook is responsible for all the content on their spread, including taking pictures, writing captions, headlines and some years writing a short story.

1. Aperture- Also called aperture stop.  Optics an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

2. Shutter- A mecanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film orlike.

3. Exposure- The total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination.

4. F-stop- The setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number.

5. Single lens reflex-that typically uses a semi-automatic moving mirror system that permits the photographer to see exactly what will be captured
6. Negative-whiteover black
7. Positive-black over white
8. Contact sheet-photographic image produced from flim
9. Agitation-Gentle movement of liquid photo-processing chemicals (developer, stop-bath, fixer) during processing of film or paper in order to achieve uniform results.
10. Enlarger-is a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints
11. Stop bath-is a chemical bath usually used in processing traditional black-and-white photographic flims,
12. Fixer-a chemical that removes unexposed silver salts from photographic media and renders them insensitive to light.

13.Safe light: is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom.

14.Burning- Increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.

15.Dodging- Blocking a portion of the light when printing a photograph or manipulating a digital image so that an area of the image will be made lighter.

Choice Sheets

First of all, I'm not even supposed to be in this class because I already have credit for it and I couldn't have an off period yet. But I might take into consideration the yearbook class; sounds kind of fun. What I like is that it covers all of the areas of the school, but since of the publication date, it turns it more into a summary of the year. This also seems like a way to get to know your school a little better and what's really going on around the campus with the students, teachers, staff, and everything else.

Abandoned Theme Parks

 

Artificialowl

1. I would like to go to this place because it looks pretty cool how all the trees and plants are growing around it and it's like hiding the park. It has a good scenery view to take photographs and even though the place is abandoned, rusted, old, it catches the attention to want to go there. It's kind of like going on an adventure, because it looks hidden and seems like you're gonna go discover something.   

Katrina 7

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-Glen Echo Park, Maryland USA

-Spreepark, Berlin

-Idora Park, Ohio USA

-Florida Splendid China Park

-Abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans

4. I liked the photographs from the abandoned Six Flags in New Orleans. Teddy Smith shot a video with permission from the city of New Orleans, of how creepy the abandoned place looks and how they should use it to make some kind of horror film. 

 

5. Well one of the main reasons I chose this place was because I love Six Flags, amusement parks, and rides. Since this place is abandoned, it looks mysterious and creepy. It would be a great place to take photographs, with all the now hidden rides, the falling objects, broken statues and all that good stuff. It has good "scary" scenery for how I mentioned above, to make horror movies. Just by looking at the pictures, it seems like a zombie or monsters are gonna pop out. 

6. To take pictures of this place, I obviously have to travel to New Orleans and stay there in a hotel or something for a while. I would have to take all my camera equipment to take pictures, money to buy food and maybe souvenirs, comfortable/raggedy clothes since it's all flooded and messy over there, and maybe a friend or two, to make me company. (:

Portraits and self-portraits-start looking

 

                                          Bekah Cunningham, Wakeland High School (Margie Raper)

Truman Capote, 1947

The first photograph caught my eye because it was just half of the girl's face and her eye, hair, and guitar stand out. What makes this picture a good photograph is that it's balanced; the guitar on the left side, her hair on the right. And they're like the same color. The second photograph got my attention by the loneliness shown here with this man sitting on a bench by some leaves or whatever that is behind him. For my next photographs I want to do them in portraits of someone else because to me, I feel like I can take more control of the background and everything else that might come out wrong. 

 

Making a B&W print

 

Equipment 

• Enlargers 

Condenser Enlarger
Diffusion Enlarger
Color Head Enlarger 

• Filters 
• Safe Lights
• Film Processing Tank
• Thermometers
• Print Trays
• Timers
• Print Washing Tray
• Print Tongs

Film Processing Chemicals 

• Film Developer
• Stop Bath
• Fixer - (Also called Hypo) 
• Hypo Clearing Agent
• "Wetting Agent" 
• Chemical "Life Span"
• Chemical Disposal 

The first thing you have to do when you're making a B&W photo is getting your film on the regular photo paper. Once you've done that, put the photo paper through a series of chemicals while timing them. The photo usually shouldn't have to stay in the chemical for more than two minutes. When you begin to see the picture on your photo paper(after the series of chemicals) you'll proceed to put your photo in water for about 10 minutes to stop all the chemicals from continuing to develop any further. After the 10 minutes are up, take the paper out of the water, squeegee the paper and let it finish drying.   

1. emulsion: a mixture of two or more immisible (unblendable) liquids.
2. aperture: a hole or an opening through which light travels.
3. masking ease:  Use photoshop masking, one of the most effective image manipulation techniques.This tutorial will focus on using Channels to help mask out a complex objects with clean edges.
4. exposure: the total amount of light allowed to fall on the sensor during the taking of a photograph
5. safe light: is a light source suitable for use in a photographic darkroom
6. dodging & burning: are terms used in photography for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the exposure of a selected area(s) on a photographic print, deviating from the rest of the image's exposure.

Ethics In Fashion Photography

1. The changes that they made on the model on the computer were her eyes; they made them kind of wider. They made her lips bigger, enlarged her face a little, switched her hair around.

2. I really don't think it's ethically acceptable to change a person's appearance like that because everyone is beautiful the way they are already. I mean, they picked her to model because they liked the way she looked already, her appearance attracted their eyes, so there shouldn't be a need to change her..right?

3. I believe that there are circumstances in which it would be more ethically wrong to do this type of manipulation, such as maybe when someone's trying to look for a person and it might be like an emergency situation, but this person has a slightly different appearance, and they won't be able to identify them because the person looks different.

4. Well it was OK to move her hair around for that "swish" effect and that's pretty much the only good thing. The other things just changed her natural appearance, even though it was just a little bit. Her eyes, lips, neck, head. It's a different face.

5. I think that the difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that in fashion photography, they don't just change up a little flaw, it's like the whole thing, or they change it to where it doesn't look the same anymore. It's like they're looking for the "perfect-model-type" face/appearance. And in photojournalism, it's still originality, just fixed up a little, as in the background, or angles.

6. Photojournalism is related to reality in the sense that it grasps in photos what is taking place all around us. In fashion photography, it relates to reality in the sense that it shows how we view beauty and how people think reality should actually be. This affects the ethical practice of each by the way that they have to be careful of whether what they are changing will completely change their intention of their photo and if it's an actual picture.

Negatives Evaluation

1. I believe all of my negatives turned out to come out pretty well. Maybe they aren't in a perfect shot or something, but you can see them clearly.

2. All of my shots came out clear, like I said above, none of them are blurry or too much/little light. They're good :)

3. Once again, all of them turned out good, but I'll probably have to say (or choose) the one with the teacher making the lab experiment because you can see everything she's doing, it's a pretty good shot and there's a lot of color in it. 

4. The technical aspect of photography that I used the most is 'focus' on all of my pictures. If you look at them, they're not blurry or out of place. That's my evidence. 

5. The rule of 'mergers and how to avoid them' is present in my favorite negative. Everything seems in place, the shot was taken at precisely what was supposed to be the focus of the picture, nothing is sticking out or around of the teacher.

Photo Manipulation And Ethics

The article was pretty much about that you can take a picture and if there happens to be a mistake or something, you just don't like in the picture, you can just change it. It's easy to loose your job over something like changing the photograph; it changes the "realness" of the photo. And pretty much makes the picture not real.

I don't believe the manipulation is very ethical. It makes the picture unreal whether it may look real or not, because it's changing the original picture to something that wasn't even taken. It can make the picture look better but that doesn't make it right. It just makes the picture fake.

 

 

To me, this picture is the most unethical. It completely put a person in there that wasn't even in the photo. They randomly put the this black guy from out of the nowhere in the picture. Who knows why.. O_o

 

This photo is the least ethical to me because the photo actually looks better. It shifted the woman walking on the left side of the picture, which also works as the rule of avoiding mergers. It also makes the picture have a better lighting focus.

Drug Cartels in Mexico

     "When I arrived in Juarez, within an hour, over the police scanners, a body has been found. And maybe 30 minutes later, another body. And then another body. And by the end of the day, it was 10. The next day, 10. The next day, 10." says journalist Jeff Antebi. From what I have read, this is a very dangerous and deadly place. Antebi mentions that you can have a distant family member that did something wrong and the cartels may be out on revenge looking maybe for you to even kill. He especially avoided being out at night because the cartels "own the night." Even the Politicians are "at risk of becoming targets." I personally think this is a horrible situation and something HAS to be done. I don't know what, but it has to.

     The picture that I liked is the one where two police officers are carrying what seems like a dead body to the van, down a dirt path, along a town. It seems like this photograph has the rule of balance because the van and part side of the town are on one side and the dirt path and officers are on the other side. I like this picture because it was a good shot, no mergers seem to be sticking out of anywhere and it doesn't seem as violent as the rest of the pictures.

Post Shoot Reflection

1. Trying to get the emotions wasn't too hard. The majority of the people were into their work, not trying to show any emotions. It was, though, kind of hard to get the perfect lighting.

2. The exposure was the hardest because I had to pay more attention to it. I did have a difficult time trying to get the right lighting, but focusing the pictures was pretty easy and simple.

3. I tried to get the point of the pictures with higher and lower views, called as in 'creating depth' and the view points.

4. Pay attention to the exposure, since I was having a hard time with that. Also, I need to stop being shy and really try to focus on my pictures and not the people looking around me.

What the pros are doing- Repetition

 

                                                                     Slice of Heaven
-Judges rate Alpine cheese in Oberstdorf, Germany. Jury members at the 5th Alpine Cheese Olympics rated over 700 kinds of Alpine cheese from all over the world.
 In this picture, the tables are repeatedly lined up. What catches more the eye, is all the different pies placed on the tables; They're everywhere! There's some men there also, walking around, but the focus is more on the tables and pies.

 

                                                                   Happy Halloween
-A pattern of lights forms a giant 275-foot jack-o-lantern on the side of WaMu Center in downtown Seattle.
Yes, the first thing that comes to our eye is the ginormous (made-up word by me) pumpkin on the building. This picture looks very balanced because of the same amount of buildings on both sides, which even the center building out, and it looks repeated.


 

 

                                                                  Volumes of Vino
-Wine bottles await tasting during the 27th International Wine Challenge in London, England. 
Well, it's pretty obvious this is a repetition picture, needless to say. The different colored bottles scattered all over the place are really eye-catching.
 

Processing B&W film

 Materials

• Film
• Chemicals
• Photo paper

Chemicals needed

• Developer
• Fixer
• Stop Bath
• Hypo Clear

Summary
When you get into the darkroom you need to remove the film from the cassette. Load the film onto a metal or plastic film reel, whichever is fine. You need to place the loaded reel in the film tank and cover it. You may turn on the light after. The film is now in a light tight container. Now you begin processing. First, set up your chemicals which include a film developer, a stop bath, a fixer with hardener, and a hypo eliminator bath. You need to make sure that the temperature of the chemicals is carefully controlled. The chemicals are affected by the speed of the film and the temperature of the developer. Next you have to pour developer into the open part of the sealed film tank and cover it. Leave it there for how ever long you are required to. When your done, take the lid off the sealed film tank and pour it out. Now pour running water into the film tank for one minute to stop development. It's time to use a fixer with hardener to fix the image to where it can be viewed in normal light. It will take somewhere around 5 to 10 minutes. After fixing, you remove the tank cover 
 completely and let the film settle in cold running water for 5 minutes. Now you need to remove all traces of the fixer to avoid the appearance of white spots on your negatives. Then pour in a tankful of Hypo eliminator and agitate for 2 minutes. Finally you wash it for another 5 minutes. Now pull the film out of the tank and hang the film  up to dry in a dust-free area. The film should be done drying after a couple hours.
 
Definitions
1. Contact sheet- a photographic image produced from film.
2. Agitation- keeping a chemical moving.
3. Enlarger- a specialized transparency projector used to produce photographic prints for film.
4. Developer- a solution used for developing a film or photographic paper.
5. Stop Bath- an acid rinse for stopping the action of a developer before fixing a negative or print.
6. Fixer- removes the undeveloped silver iodide from the emulsion.

American Slideshow and Captions

A.) I think that the most powerful picture is found in chapter 5, 19th photo. There isn't any distractions in the background, so the subjects just pops out really well. I think this picture is great, even though it's unbalanced. The army men look so strong and I just think it's a good picture.

B.) I believe all of chapter 1 is the strongest sequence of photos because it shows him enlisting in the army and you can see the emotion, not only in his eyes, but also his parents. It shows the realities of going into the army right after high school and it's pretty touching.

C.) These images show the main points of Ian's life and they tell a story because the images come like right after the other. Every picture tells a section of the whole story, but these pictures work really well together because after one section or one picture, the next picture comes and tells another section. They all fit well together and there's a lot of emotion in each picture.

3A.)The verbs are written in present tense.

B.) The captions enhance the photos because they say what the picture is showing. They give you some insight and what Ian is saying or thinking at the time that the picture was taken.They also tell you what the picture doesn't, such as what's going to happen after or right before the picture was taken.

4A.) Chapter 8, pic. 18: Coming Home
Ian Fisher toasts with his friends Jonathan and Harvey on the night he gets home from Iraq while his girlfriend, Jenny, is in the background just watching. This is the first time Ian has seen Johnathan and Harvey in over a year and they toast to making more memories and having more fun times, just like in the good old days.
2. Chapter 2, pic. 6: In The Army
Ian Fisher closes his eyes and reminisces while he is getting his hair shaved, in his third day in the army. Ian has had his head shaved numerable times, so this isn't a big deal for him.
3. Chapter 5, pic. 24: Army Blues
Ian's dad, Mark, awakens him for his big day to go to Basic Training in Little Rock, Arkansas. Ian's mother was in the kitchen cooking him up a good breakfast for his last day at home.

5A.) These videos enhance the photographs because they basically give a detailed description about the photographs and you can hear the emotion in the voices and the background music just creates that feeling of  sadness.
B.) Videos are sometimes better than photographs because you don't have to analyze the picture as much to figure out what's really going on Videos just tell and show you everything. They use the elements of sound, along with sight to tell a story, even though pictures just use sight. An example would be the Video Chapter 2-First Days and Second Thoughts video.
C.) I think videos are better than photographs because with photographs, you can see the emotion but in videos not only can you see it, but hear it too. I think videos tell the story better because you can hear a lot of different points of view, unlike in photographs, you can only see one side of things.

Contests Preview, Show and Tell

Association of Texas Photography Instructors

2009 Fall Contest Winners

In this picture, the lighting is mostly focused on the bottom half of the photograph, focusing on all the shoes scattered at the bottom. What grabbed my attention was all the different colors that are on the girl and the shoes. It's well balanced because the girl is positioned to the right and the left side is filled up by all the shoes.   

Funny Captions :)

The Taylor family car stops under this bridge-looking tree on Lonesome Rd. and decide to take pictures of the rabbits that are coming out from above the tree. Notice that the car was coming from a dead end; the road ends once you keep going after you go through the bridge. 

Billy is trying to teach his goat how to fly, so he pushes him off a plane and the poor goat is terrified to die. Unfortunately, while the goat was screaming his ass off, his tongue got tangled on an electric wire and electrocuted his whole mouth. 

 

The rest of Cinthia's bike has been stolen because she keeps forgetting to give the mailman his Christmas present. It's a good thing she at least has a tire left; maybe she can finally practice using a unicycle.  

Marlboro Marine

2A.) Luis Sinco utilized his skills of friendlyness and care to approach his friend James Blake Miller and get close to him, to try to help him.

B.) The effect of the multimedia effects of the slideshow make it seem more story-like and it kind of added more significance in trying to make us get feelings toward the slideshow.

3A.) I think that the most powerful image from the slideshow would have to be the one where Miller is leaning, with a cigarette in his mouth. To me, it seems powerful because you can see the bravery in his face and how he's all dirty from his hard working job. Just the expression in his face makes the picture powerful.

B.) The sequence of photographs that is most powerful is the ones that were used at the beggining of the slideshow, grabbing the audience's attention and trying to make us feel something.

C.) The audio enhances the slide show as back up. The audio tells the story, the struggle that's going on and the tone in the speakers voice.

D.) The complied images show the story, the actual real life people involved in Blake's life.

Marlboro Marine

2A.) Luis Sinco utilized his skills of friendlyness and care to approach his friend James Blake Miller and get close to him, to try to help him.

B.) The effect of the multimedia effects of the slideshow make it seem more story-like and it kind of added more significance in trying to make us get feelings toward the slideshow.

3A.) I think that the most powerful image from the slideshow would have to be the one where Miller is leaning, with a cigarette in his mouth. To me, it seems powerful because you can see the bravery in his face and how he's all dirty from his hard working job. Just the expression in his face makes the picture powerful.

B.) The sequence of photographs that is most powerful is the ones that were used at the beggining of the slideshow, grabbing the audience's attention and trying to make us feel something.

C.) The audio enhances the slide show as back up. The audio tells the story, the struggle that's going on and the tone in the speakers voice.

D.) The complied images show the story, the actual real life people involved in Blake's life.

Great B&W photographers

What first caught my eye from this picture was the winding road, that isn't all straight from the front view to the distance and how you can't see where it ends. Mainly what I see here is the lonely road, mountains in the background and the puffy clouds in the sky. I can smell the dead cow that's been on the roadside for weeks. I can hear the old windmill blowing back in the distance. I can taste the dry dessert heat in my mouth. I feel the hot sweat running down my forehead and cheeks.

What first caught my eye in this picture was the crippled man standing right in the middle of the photograph. I can see the man facing to his left side, maybe talking to his wife. I smell the aroma from the food cooking in the kitchen, which is where he's headed. I hear his wife yelling at him for being outside in the cold under his special conditions. I feel the chilly wind blowing against my face, since it's a windy December evening.

I think that one good way to spread the word on photography and share everyone else's work would have to be by blogging, like the one I just did above and the ones we do in this class.

Filling the Frame

This picture "Fills the Frame" in a very good way because everything seems in place, like there's no empty spaces, it's all filled up in a proportioned way. It grabs the attention with the colorful carpet and all the kids sitting around it.

Action and Emotion

This picture shows action by this woman leading a band in what seems like a game. There's also action and movement going on in the background, with the people playing the instruments and stuff. I'm pretty sure the emotions here are probably like excitement and nervousness, since they're performing publicly.

The Story

I chose this picture as the "The story" because it's like a shot taken right when the man is about to tell the little girl something. I think he's trying to tell her to watch out and not be playing around or something. I've comed to this conclusion because of all the things piled in the background and maybe the girl was running or something and this guy is getting her attention.

Hurricane Ike

I believe that this picture showing the destructive force of hurricane Ike, follows the rule of "sense of  depth". I chose this picture because the damages of the hurricane in this picture are shown clearly: woods, boats.. rely on the path of the highway, that means that the strong winds or the water brought those pieces onto the highway

 

The rule of "leading lines" fits with this picture, the subject of this photo is the building that has many lines in his structure. I chose this picture because it shows how hurricane Ike damaged many constuctions; even skyscrapers.

Great B&W photographers part 2

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He died on April 22, 1984 in Carmel, California. He had problems in school and only received an eigth grade education. He preferred learning mainly through his own interests. He was serious about music but was also interested in photography.He had a job of a photo technician, which made him learn more about his hobby. He then started his career as a photographer. One of his books he published was the Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras in 1927. Some other books he published were the Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail in 1938, the Illustrated Guide to Yosemite Valley in 1940, Yosemite and the High Sierra in 1948, and also My Camera in Yosemite Valley in 1949. Some of pictures of Ansel Adams are shown below: 

Great B&W photographers preview

  

Lewis Hine

Handicapped-Crippled Steelworker

 

Helen Levitt

New York

 

Roy DeCarava

Romare Bearden  

 

The Camera

 

1. Camera-  A device that stores and records images.

2. Photography- The activity or art of capturing still or moving pictures.
3. Camera Lens- Is an optical lens or assembly of lenses used in conjunction with a camera body.
4. Optical Lens- A device with perfect or approximate axial symmetry which transmits and refracts light.

1. Aperture- Also called aperture stop.  Optics an opening, usually circular, that limits the quantity of light that can enter an optical instrument.

2. Shutter- A mecanical device for opening and closing the aperture of a camera lens to expose film orlike.

3. Exposure- The total amount of light received by a photosensitive surface or an area of such a surface, expressed as the product of the degree of illumination and the period of illumination.

4. Depth of Field- The range of distances along the axis of an optical instrument, usually a camera lens, through which an object will produce a relatively distinct image.

5. F-stop- The setting of an adjustable lens aperture, as indicated by an f number.

6. Focal Length- The distance from the focal point of a lens or mirror to the reflecting surface of the mirror or the center point of the lens

Advanced Photo Composition

                                                                      Rule Of Thirds

Balancing Elements

Leading Lines

Symmetry and Patterns

Viewpoint

Background

Create Depth

Framing

Cropping

Mergers And Avoiding Them

Discussion

This picture looks like discussion because the background kind of gives it those diagonal lines that balance it out with the walking firemen.

Avoiding Mergers

Framing

In this picture, we can see framing in the rectangle that the people are forming around the flag they're holding and the other people in the background.

Balance

I think that the balance in this picture on the left side is the woman that's standing there and on the right side its the lady with her helmet. If the lady on the left wasn't there, it would be unbalanced and there would be a lot of empty space behind the boy's back.

Lines