Academic Shoot

Balance...

 I think I did an okay job with this rule. The subject would be the act of Mrs.Tennen teaching the class, and helping them to learn and speak French. I think that the subject is obvious, because you don't really see anything else that could be the subject besides a class learning.

 The darkness of the left side of the photo balanced out the side with all the students and Mrs.Tennen.   Except for that though, I think I could have done better, with maybe using a different angle and instead of using lighting to balance, perhaps using the people in the class. 

Framing...

I think I did a pretty good job at following this rule, because the  guy on the left and the girl in the red shirt on the right along with the window above her, serve as a good frame for the class rules on the wall, which is the subject. The two posters, and the list of conjugates on the wall is the subject in the photo; I could have done a better job with capturing the subject though, because some people may think that the guy on the left is the main subject, since he is the closest to the camera. 

 Simplicity...

 The photo is pretty simple, because the objects in the background are a little bit blurred out, and they are simple items. The subject would be the guy on the left, doing what everyone does at some point in their life, day dream. I think the subject is pretty obvious, since he is the clearest part of the photo and also the biggest part of the photo.

I wish there was better lighting, but I didn't want to ask to turn the rest of the lights on, because then I would be interrupting the class. 

Lines...

The subject is Aaron learning and taking in as much information as possible. I don't think anyone could mistake the subject for something else, because there isn't really anything else in the picture that would make sense to be the subject.

I could definitely do a better job with this rule, because I always look for the easy way out with this rule. I always look for physical lines that are on the walls or something else, instead of imaginary lines that connect different points on the picture, like the example on the website we looked at when learning about the six rules of photography. The person had taken the picture two where the two people on the beach, along with their reflection in the water, has made about fifteen different triangles. 

Mergers...

So, instead of finding a picture avoiding mergers, you wanted us to find a picture with a merger.  I took this one, because if you look at the girl in the stripped cardigan, it looks at if one sleeve is black and she has her head resting on her fist. But that arm is really the arm of the person sitting behind her, who you can't see because of where I took the photo. I am actually not sure myself what the subject is, so i could have done a better job at capturing a subject in the photo.

I think this picture could be better if I had gotten closer to the girl and taken the photo with a a more interesting angle. 

Rule of Thirds...

I think I followed this rule very well, because if you split the picture into a grid, Ashlee is not directly in the center of the photo. Ashlee is off to the side and so that makes the photo a little bit more interesting. The subject is Ashlee, being happy with learning and being happy with where she is, and just happy with her life. I'm pretty confident with the subject being present in this photo, mainly because the background doesn't have anything in it that could effect the subject. I wish I had taken a different angle with this photo, but that would have caused me to be in some of the other people's way and I didn't want to block them from seeing the projector.

I also like how I got a picture of her smiling, without asking her to smile. She just turned around at the right time with a smile on her face because someone had made her laugh, and I luckily got it at the right time.