How Photography Can be Used as a Composition
I loved reading these pages because it brought back so many memories. It was as though they were talking about my family. My mother’s favorite plate to make was “mole” and only prepared it when it was someone’s birthday. If pictures could speak, a lot could be said about the photos. In order to be used as a composition, one has to look into how a photograph is viewed through the eyes of the person that is looking at it. The color also has a lot to do with it, how the picture is viewed with intensity or not.
There is also the size of the picture. Is the picture too small or too large. Is there great expression in the photo and finally is the space taken up positively or negatively. In the picture that I choose of my family, the picture has all this and more. This is a black and white picture that our family took a long time ago. It is one my favorite pictures because I look at all my brothers and sisters and instant memories are sprung in my brain. I remember my youngest brother in the far right was upset because my father made him wear that jacket that was borrowed from the photo studio. He didn’t own one but was forced to wear it. I am the one sitting the middle of the picture. I borrowed those boots from one of my favorite cousins that were also visiting from California. That year, all the family got together and to make it the most memorable was that it actually snowed in El Paso on Christmas Eve.
The way this photo conveys meaning is that all of us were together for this Christmas season and my father made sure that we took a family picture. We are a very tight nit family. My father and mother were very loving parents.
I loved reading these pages because it brought back so many memories. It was as though they were talking about my family. My mother’s favorite plate to make was “mole” and only prepared it when it was someone’s birthday. If pictures could speak, a lot could be said about the photos. In order to be used as a composition, one has to look into how a photograph is viewed through the eyes of the person that is looking at it. The color also has a lot to do with it, how the picture is viewed with intensity or not.
There is also the size of the picture. Is the picture too small or too large. Is there great expression in the photo and finally is the space taken up positively or negatively. In the picture that I choose of my family, the picture has all this and more. This is a black and white picture that our family took a long time ago. It is one my favorite pictures because I look at all my brothers and sisters and instant memories are sprung in my brain. I remember my youngest brother in the far right was upset because my father made him wear that jacket that was borrowed from the photo studio. He didn’t own one but was forced to wear it. I am the one sitting the middle of the picture. I borrowed those boots from one of my favorite cousins that were also visiting from California. That year, all the family got together and to make it the most memorable was that it actually snowed in El Paso on Christmas Eve.
The way this photo conveys meaning is that all of us were together for this Christmas season and my father made sure that we took a family picture. We are a very tight nit family. My father and mother were very loving parents.
You have a really big family. But having a big family means that you can plan a bunch of activities which can be really fun and exciting... I know when I was sort of involved with a big family it was always fun seeing all their relatives. All great people...
ReplyDeleteAlicia,
ReplyDeleteI love this picture! All of you look so happy. your brother does seem bothered ( the one forced to wear the jacket) lol. You have a very nice family!
Alicia-
ReplyDeleteI agree with your group members - this picture is amazing. I think that personal photos are especially powerful in that they speak to those of us in the discourse community (in this case the family) in ways that not everyone may "read" the images. I think, however, most of us have a professional family photo like this in our past and the fact that families of a certain generation and class paid for professional group photos says something about what we value.
Nice post-
Jen