Self Portrait

The original file was taken at 1/250, ISO 100 at f/11 with 2 strip boxes left and right and a large softbox boomed over me. I took it at 24mm on a 24-70 f/2.8L and a Canon 1D X. I took it lying down on a cyclo, with the camera mounted on a magic arm attached to the boom. I took it with the 35mm camera in it because I love that camera, it brings me a sense of comfort, as does being in the studio. I lied down with my feet on the wall, and just felt comfortable, literally and figuratively. I feel that this picture really captures me, I'm comfortable, behind a camera, in my socks and jeans, with a shirt that's anti-homophobia. Also, I love how the blue clashes against the white, as does my skin. I should have worn something darker, or just slightly flagged off the lights because I have some highlighting going on with my shirt.

In photoshop, I didn't do much, I played with the levels, saturation and contrast, and slightly upped the highlights to blow out the gray background. 

Photogram

I wasn't really satisfied with the way my photogram turned out. But I was happy that it came out at the least.I placed some change, headphones and a light bulb onto my photo sensitive paper. I shined the light from my phone's screen about 6" above the paper, for about 10 seconds. I don't think I shined the light long enough, because very little of the light bulb turned out, but you can still tell that it's a light bulb. But the distance was perfect I think, because there was no fall off, and the entire paper was covered. I then removed all the objects from the paper, and put it in a developing bath for 90 seconds. After removing that and ensuring there was no drippage, I put it in the stop bath for 30 seconds, then again ensuring that there was nothing dripping off of it, I put it in the fix bath for another 90 seconds.  Throughout that I was rocking the baths while my paper was in them. I then went and placed my picture in the sink for 5 minutes. Following that I placed it into the dryer, 

In hindsight I would have placed my phone on max brightness for maybe 12 or 15 seconds.

 Balanced Composition
I chose the photo because it's absolutely beautiful. From the plume of smoke with the Shuttle at the head, disappearing into the clouds, on its journey to space, to the composition of putting it right into the middle, somewhat reminiscent of jack and the bean stalk, growing, taking Jack (The shuttle) to another world, high above the clouds, to the dramatic post processing and just contrast of the image. I feel that it truly captures the essence of the American Space Program, and is a perfect example of balanced composition.

Converging Lines
I chose this picture to represent the converging lines genre of photo composition, purely due to the fact that it has so many converging lines, and at the same time tells a story of 2 teenage women,

Frame Within A Frame
This image is a great example of a frame within a frame. This picture spoke to me because of the pure emotion that it emotes. It truly captured the essence of the Olympics, the raw emotion that goes into them.

S-Curve
This photo, although may be a graphic image, truly demonstrate the S-Curve in a photo.

Rule Of Thirds

This photo has the main focal point of the image at the top right, not in the center, hence utilizing the rule of thirds.