Chapter 2: Looking Closer

  McLean, Virginia, December 1978 p. 126

Pumpkin Patch in Virginia

Today's Objectives

  • learn to evaluate images based on composition, selection, and emphasis
  • learn to crop images to emphasize a point
  • (preparing you to use software to crop and use images)

As you look at the picture think about how the details of the image are arranged in visual space and consider different ways of framing the image.

Discussion Questions

  • What is included in the picture?
  • What is left out?
  • What is in the foreground?
  • What is in the background?
  • Does one part of the image contradict or enhance another part of the image?

 

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