Point Of View

Original High Angle

Final Edit High Angle

This picture was firstly cropped as I wanted to get rid of the carpet and let the focus be the artificial deer, tree and snowflakes. (And even though they're artificial, I think it's impressive how much of a natural atmosphere they transmit.) Then I added a mask for brightness and contrast, and a mask for hue and saturation. I wanted the picture to be as "cold" as possible without losing its childhood essence, and I frankly think it worked fine.

Original Low Angle

Final Edit Low Angle

The first thing I did to the picture was simply adding a mask and making it saturated with the most equilibrium I could manage to have. I surely wanted some things to stick out, such as the Sope Me flashcard and the vibrant colors present in the mattress. I created a mask to protect some colors from the saturation, however. The pink flowers would look wine-red, and that was not my goal. My room has always had the same cozy atmosphere (one of the reasons why I seldom leave it), and wine-red is not really a color that would suit it.  

Composition Study

An example of the rule of thirds.

This picture was taken when I first walked outside after the first night in Florida, during February vacation. It was a little chilly, but the weather was surprisingly still hospitable. I saw this bush that is right next to my house, and the warm-pink flowers that lied there caught my attention after the first half second I put my eyes on them. I decided to take a picture, and some of my challenges were my sister running around and the incredibly defensive bee that was threatening my attempt.

Another example of the rule of thirds.

While the focus of the last picture were the flowers, this picture's focus is the green house. The eye tends to look at the basically screaming orange, but the focus, at  the corner of the picture, is the green house.

An example of the fill-the-frame composition rule. 

Another example of the fill-the-frame composition rule. 

My biggest challenge, and it is quite visible here, was the squirrel's tail. I did not want to crop its tail, the picture would be incomplete if I did so. I left it like this, only cropping the background "excess" and making sure the squirrel was the main focus of the picture. Odd it may seem, the squirrel remain still and photogenic as I spent three minutes trying to take the picture, so it helped me a lot.