Frank Wang

A Crash Course in Photographic Composition

Love the Union Square Photo.  Has a classic 1870's look reminescent of Gustave Caillebotte or Manet. The snow has a grainy effect and yet it is a very "painterly" photograph.<img class="zoomable rounded-image-wrapper" src="http://p0.storage.canalblog.com/04/30/109333/63661166_p.jpg" alt="viewmultimediadocument" />

Hi Melissa! I wanted to let you know that Guido has started Google plus group for people in this class to continue sharing your photos. I hope you'll join!

The link is:
https://plus.google.com/communities/117386052676499236162

Thanks Sarah! Will definitely join. Haven't been able to get out and shoot lately, but want to change that :)

I love the Snow in Union Square. It's an amazing photo.

Hi Melissa!  Hello again!  Thanks for taking another one of my classes.  

I love the overall feeling of your photos.  There's a certain mood &amp; feeling to them. 

The Fog - I like your execution here, but am not sure it works for this photo.  I definitely appreciate the attempt to use the tree as a frame here but actually think the image would be just as good without the tree.  You already have a good foreground (the grass), a midground (trees) and the background (sky).  

Tree in the Night - Nice job with this photo, good use of the rule of thirds.  I'd have put the tree slightly to the left so that its trunks lie on the vertical third on the right.  But nice shot in general!

Room in the mirror - Great use of framing here.  It's a spooky image.  A subject in the stuffed chair would have been even more fantastic.  

Show in Union Square - This is my favorite image of all.  Excellent use of fore/mid/background.  I agree with your fellow students in that I'd like to have seen the figure on the left move in a bit, but that's a pretty small issue.  

Great start.  Will I see you at the NYC photowalk?  

I am drawn to photos shot and dusk and in the dark and in bad weather, so your photos pull me in.

In your first image, the trees blend in (beautifully) to the sky. I would like to see the horizon line, where the grass meets the trees, higher up, closer to the upper rule of thirds line.

In your second photo, the path looks like it is closer to the bottom third than the fence. The fence looks close to the midline. I would like to see this with the fence further down and more of that beautiful, foggy sky. 

In the third, I think it follows the framing rule and the rule of thirds, but something about the darkness in the top two thirds isn't working for me. I am not sure why. Maybe someone else will be able to explain it.

In your last photo, the mood is wonderful, and the building is situated perfectly. I would have loved to see a little more space between the man on the left and the edge of the photo or no man at all.

Oh, and your cover photo -- with the eye -- I would love to see more of that!

I would have loved to see the entire frame in the last photo.  

The Fog
This first image I am trying to frame the background in the tree. It was a big larger at first so I zoomed in and cropped it closer to the tree. It was pretty hard to capture the fog correctly as the sun was setting, but I'm happy with the way this turned out. I was trying to get the tree even darker in the foreground so it was more of a silhouette, but I couldn't figure out how to.
<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/ca8ed7de" alt="Ireland &amp; NYC - image 1 - student project" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/ca8ed7de 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/ca8ed7de 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
Tree in the Night
In this image I tried to place the tree in the third on the right, and the fence in the horizon on the bottom third.
<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/3494e22e" alt="Ireland &amp; NYC - image 2 - student project" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/3494e22e 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/3494e22e 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
Room in the mirror
This is another experiment in framing.
<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/580a8142" alt="Ireland &amp; NYC - image 3 - student project" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/580a8142 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/580a8142 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">
Snow in Union Square
Here I was trying to do the rule of thirds, and get a distinct foreground, midground, and background going.
<img src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/8dd5e932" alt="Ireland &amp; NYC - image 4 - student project" srcset="http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/8dd5e932 600w, http://s3.amazonaws.com/skillshare/uploads/project/d980acba08ffd5e3a85dab79da709f05/8dd5e932 1000w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 600px, 100vw" loading="lazy">

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