I enjoyed taking the pictures for the slide show. Using the camera was not hard, it was much harder to find photos that I felt captured each element/principle clearly.
For "Line" I chose to take a picture of the side of my coffee table upside down, because I noticed it have very strong straight black line of metal on the sides. For "Value" I took the picture in black and white because I felt it showed the gradients of light better, from white where the sunlight hits the wall, to complete darkness in the shadows.
"Shape" is a picture of an old lighthouse-buoy and I liked how it combined organic curves with geometric circles in the port holes. For "Form" I took a picture of an apple because it is pretty close to a perfect sphere, but still obviously organic.
"Space" is a picture I took of Canada as seen from the american side of Lake Erie; it was chosen because the distance between the two sides and the size of the lake is easily taken in. My "Color" photo is of the Caribbean ocean and it is an older photo from a vacation I took. I chose it because the whole photo is various shades and tints of blue--it is monochromatic--and has a calming effect.
"Texture" is a photo of a field of cattails at Times Beach Nature Preserve; the texture of the tails can clearly be seen, the whole photo has a "rough" feeling. "Balance" is a picture of Wilkeson Pointe on Buffalo's outer harbor. This photo was chosen because I felt the statue and the tree on top of the hill balanced each other out.
The "Contrast" photo is actually my book-bag. I chose it because, in black and white, the light colored circles really stood out on the dark background. "Movement" is the Buffalo lighthouse, located on the outer harbor. I thought the dark color at the top of the lighthouse drew the eye upward when you looked at it.
"Emphasis" is a picture of my boyfriend standing on the steps of the lighthouse. I chose this picture because for some reason the photo came out looking almost black and white, but his face was blue. I thought his face was definitely emphasized by those Smurf-like tones!
"Pattern" is a dress I own with a tribal-inspired pattern on it. "Proportion" is a grain factory as seen from a boat on lake Erie. The smallness of the trees and boats near the factory are in proportion to its size.
"Unity" is a picture of the lake on a very foggy day. I chose this picture because it looks like the sky and water blend into each-other as one unit.
http://s359.photobucket.com/user/smithba02/slideshow/Elements%20and%20Principles?sort=3
I love the pictures you took. I find inspiration in a lot of the places you chose to shot myself.
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