I loved the shape of the play blocks; especially how the lighting made them appear three dimensional in form. I feel like the photograph is separated into two different sides (the black board one the left and the yellow blocks to the right) yet the two sides are ultimately unified by the yellow color in each.
When taking the photograph, I purposefully shifted the camera so that the green metal bar was placed almost in the center. By doing this, the viewer's eye follows the bar partway down, branches off to follow the contours of the first yellow board, then branches off in the opposite direction to follow the yellow blocks downward. Including the swings in the background made the photo more aesthetically pleasing.
Texture and pattern were the two most important principles I chose to employ in this photograph. Though the texture of the cement beneath the pine cone is blurred, it nevertheless lends an interesting background that emphasizes the pinecone. And secondly, the texture of the sand grains on the subject make the pattern of the pinecone stand out clearly.
Initially, the colors of the photograph had distracted from the implicit lines and tonal value of it. So when I turned the photo black and white, the whites, grays, and blacks popped out. I loved how crisp the shadows looked; in addition to how the shape of the chain link fence stood out so clearly against the grayish white color of the fence.
In this photograph, my eye was immediately drawn to how the bright yellow color of the slide stood out against the dun color of the playground sand. This, in addition to the bluish white color of the snow juxtaposed to black shadows, added a nice bit of contrast to the photo.
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