Repetition and Thirds

Last week, our assignment for photography class was to take a minimum of seventy frames - without looking at the LCD screen - and submit one picture that demonstrated an effective use of the repetition and one that demonstrated an effective use of the rule of thirds. Also, until we are given permission, none of us in the photography class are allowed to edit our pictures. (So, unless I specify, all the pictures on this blog are completely unedited.)

The purpose of these rules is to teach us how to compose a solid picture in our heads before we snap the picture. 

Below are the two pictures that I submitted. I was really pleased with how the first picture turned out, but the second could have been better. I have other pictures of the same subject that I prefer, but they didn't quite fit the requirements.

  My repetition picture: chair legs.

  My rule of thirds picture: part of a wasp nest.

 After I weeded through all the pictures, I was still left with over 100 frames. Some of them I'm not too crazy about, but others I really like. These are some of the good ones from the shoot:

Here's another picture of the wasp that I like better than the one that I submitted. 

 I went for a walk in the woods and found this one red and green leaf among all the other red and yellow ones. The picture doesn't capture it too well, but it was gorgeous!

Yesterday morning, I went outside with the intention of taking pictures of a birch sapling, and ended up on my hands and knees taking pictures of the dewy grass.

You'll probably want to enlarge these - just click the photo. 

I just had to throw in this picture for fun. I told my friend Jacob that I was looking for a good picture of lines, so he obligingly climbed a tree and proceeded to plank in it.