states, 1994: Afraid of the two-‐wheel bicycle, this title makes you wonder what happened on that day in 1994? Did they fall off their bicycle? Get hit by someone riding a bicycle? Where is their scar? This photo-‐essay helped me see the art in photography and helped me find the key to taking portraits. Image Analysis I chose to analyze this specific picture because I feel that it is the strongest picture of this photo-‐essay. There was not much editing done to this picture because the original lighting helped bring out the facial features. The facial expressions of this picture show fear, pain, and sadness, which by looking at this picture you could understand her story behind her scar. Her hair is covering some of her face, which provides shadows along the outer side of her cheekbones, and there are huge “bags” underneath both of her eyes, which immediately draws the audience to look beneath them. The eye contact made is located directly in the center of the image, which is the main focus of a portrait. I also feel that the picture has a greater effect on the audience because there are no color distractions. The entire image only possesses neutral tones (black, nude, brown, gray, light blue). If there were brighter or other colors used the picture would have been too “busy” and distracting. When editing this picture I kept in mind the rule of thirds and the main focus of the picture, which is her face, which takes up the middle 1/3rds of the entire photograph. Her
face is located in the direct center of the photograph. According to the rule of thirds you should position the most important elements in your scene along these lines, or at the points where they intersect. The title of this image is 1994: Roof Fall, her scar is on her left hip and it’s from when she was just three years old and fell outside her backyard toy house roof top. Because of the placement of the trees and her face, you can tell the photograph was taken from higher up, which relates to her fear of heights and her previous injury. Also when taking this picture, I kept in mind symmetry and patterns. As you may notice all the background trees are located across the picture at the exact same height throughout. Another important rule of composition that was used through this image was the viewpoint. The picture was taken from a roof point view but at my eye-‐level, which helped get the half trees half cloud background