Saturday, February 16, 2013

The Elements And Principles Of Design

When creating this slideshow, my knowledge - or lack there of - of the elements and principles of design really came through.

It was pretty tough to come up with ideas for some of the different principles, but I went back into my photo album on my camera and was able to find a few that I feel really showed the elements.

Unfortunately, when I went to create the slideshow on photobucket's website, I came across this little issue:

Photobucket's slideshow capabilities were disabled when the revamped their website late in 2012
However, they have this new feature called "Stories" that takes selected photos and creates a storyboard, of sorts, with them. So that's what I have embedded below: The creation of the story is a bit weird. The opening photo that has the caption of "Michael Straw's Story" is actually my photo for rhythm, but I couldn't change the label.



When it came to actually creating the story (slideshow), I wanted to incorporate my interests along with my ideas of what makes a cool picture.

I take A LOT of photos, my 32gb memory card in my camera only has 1.24 GB remaining. Needless to say, I like my photos. Haha.

I like taking pictures that many people find weird, like my Line photo. Who goes under a dock? I also wanted to take pictures from different angles that not many think of like in my Pattern, Shape, and Form photos.

I have a love of sports, I am a sports writer after all, so I wanted to incorporate sports into my photos which is evident in my Form and Emphasis photos. 

2 comments:

  1. First of all, I think the story feature of photo bucket looks interesting. I didn't have the same problem, but it looks very neat.

    I really enjoyed looking at your project, I thought your examples portrayed each of the elements and principles really well. I especially admired your example for Balance. The view in that picture is extremely beautiful and it fits balance category well. I also love your adorable dog in the variety example. Lastly, I thought that your example for pattern and repetition could also fit the category of texture really well.

    Very good overall on the project. I enjoyed your images.

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  2. I think you did a really great job at coming up with pictures for this project. You really thought outside the box for each category. I really liked the lines, texture, and proportion pictures the most. I agree that no one would have probably looked under a pier for a picture.

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