Photo Roll

Shot on iPhone 12 Pro

Intro Photo

During my travels back to Ottawa connecting in Toronto, I noticed these unique, departure-schedule screens shaped like leaves. Usually, I look past outlandish infrastructure because their designs serve little purpose aside from merely catching one's eye. Although, since this interesting creation served a purpose and directed me to where I needed to go, I gave it greater attention and thought it deserved a photo because it was unlike anything I've seen in other airports, while being informative.

Depth of Field

With the portrait effect, all focus is placed on the rock-stand, while the immensely-deep background is effectively blurred allowing the viewer to focus solely on the detail, colours, and balance of the rocks at first glance. Though blurred, when looked at closely, the photo's background boasts several textures, colours, depths, and heights. Even while the background is "bokeh'd", we see the deep greens of the forest, the dark blues of the mountain at its lower altitudes, the bright white icecaps, and the beautiful, gradient sky showing off multiple light blues. This photo is completely unedited, but with a little tinkering, I'm sure it would allow the background colours to become more distinguishable. In its natural state, though, the depth of field technique brings great attention to an object that otherwise wouldn't be paid attention to with the astonishing views that surround it.

Leading Lines

I used the leading lines technique in two ways of mind here when I took this photo. First, I used to the untouched snowy pathway and the fences as to guide one's eye to the unbrushed car in the middle ground. Then, I used the parallel rooflines to lead eyes to the apartment buildings shielded by foggy clouds in the background.

Textures

This photo particularly invites one's eyes to gravitate to the two most-prominently focused chicken nuggets, which display several textures. We can see plentiful individual breadcrumbs of different shape, size, colour, and the degree of coarseness which make up the outer shell, encapsulating the moist chicken. Furthermore, the darker colour of the finely-cracked peppercorns that reside on the crunchy exterior of the chicken nuggets makes the golden-brown patches highly distinguishable. Finally, while they are taken out of focus due to my camera's close proximity to the chicken, we see textures of the fries on the plate too, specifically their burnt edges.

Internal Frame

As an overall theme for this photo, it captures and formally presents the change of season. Considering the windshield as the primary frame, three sets of objects are framed in particular: the trees in the foreground, middle-ground and background; in the middle-ground, there's the last of a melting mountain of snow that had amassed throughout the winter by snowplows; the apartment complex in the background; and to paint the picture of a season's change, per se, is the rain that calmly runs down the slope of the windshield. Moreover, this picture attempts to demonstrate the use of multiple frames to contribute to the overarching image theme; framed by the sunroof is the complete greyness of the overcast skies that come at the onset of spring. Also, the window-access this image provides is limited, though, it greatly extends the primary frame, that being the windshield, by broadening the horizon and boasting tree-coverage.