Color and Design '24 Shots' Project

This was a fun assignment. I'm fortunate enough to have a gigantic catalog of photographs I have personally taken over the past 4, to 5 years. Some of these I recently shot, and others I gathered from my 'archives'.

Let's start with Asymmetrical Balance. The three images below not only lack symmetry, but they also have a variety of proportions and angles of objects in the image, adding to the images depth and chaos.


Next is Symmetrical Balance. The images below have either horizontal, vertical (or in the case of the keys, both) symmetry; the reflection of the mountains and trees, the similiar paths and trees, and the cluster of similiar keys.



Dominance can be achieved in a variety of ways. In the case of the first image, proximity is what gives my neice, Ky, 'dominance. In the second image, the case of 'less is more' gives the vibrant bouncy ball dominance against the boring gray soot. Dominance can also be psychological, my friends shadow not only conjures up the psychological thought of an attacker or physical dominance but also the heavy shadow dominates the sunny ground.


Repetition is rather simple and self explanatory. The 'ice islands', although not in any particular pattern, are repetitive in their edges and size. The beach with the smashed ice berg has a repetitive pattern, and the last image of me throwing a disc is repetitive in that it is a set of sequential images.




The four images below represent Scale Change. A rather small animal, appears 'large and in charge', when I layed in the grass to take a picture of some neighborhood ducks. What I believe is small speks of cotton on a nearby lake, juxtaposed to the gigantic glacier and mountains is an obvious example of scale change. The American pin, although small, is visually detailed and can be thought of philosophically 'big'. The last image is a tree in my backyard against Thunder Mountain in the distance. The contrast in detail and lighting shows the change in scale.



The following four images are representations of Orientation (or different points of view). Sitting low to the water is an interesting angle for another picture of a neighborhood duck and the comfortable but contorted picture of my cat, Cinderella, gives me the impression of laying down (which is actually how I took the picture). The image of my dog wading in the water is not only visually appealing but the tall grass blocks some of her off, giving you the impression of actually being there. The last image was sort of for fun, it's me goofing around blowing bubbles. The angle used and orientation of my head give the image excitement and curiosity.



The four images below are representations of Rhythm or Movement. The first image gives me the impression of seeing your breathe on a cold winter night. The second image gives visual movement from the dancing fire and small trickle of water below. The last two images are actual captures of movement, from falling water to bicycling along side my dog.



The last 3 images are of Pattern. The first one is a picture of the nearby Mendenhall River during thaw. The chunks of ice have a very similiar 'blocky' pattern. It reminds me of a Picasso painting. The other two images are obvious representations of patterns through trees. Trees grow in pattern known as the Fibonacci sequence, which although is hard to directly translate, is visually apparent.