This photo is a representation of an amateur. I took this picture using my iPhone at a football game in 2011. When looking at the photo, your eyes first look at the Maryland flag on the field. But, looking closer there are players on the field that should be the main focus. The building is casting a very strong shadow making it difficult to see the players and what they are doing. There is also a glare in the photo from the sun rays that makes it hard to see. This photo is framed very nicely if it were meant to show the football field. However, since the subject matter is the players on the field, the framing is too wide and should have been cropped in much tighter. The lighting is poor since half of the field is in cast shadow and the other half is in direct sunlight. The camera angle is taken from an elevated perspective and is not askew. If the image had been cropped tighter on the players the angle itself would have been very pleasing. Since this photo was taken with an iPhone, the resolution is not the best and could not be displayed very large. The subjects should be the football players, but is instead the field as a whole because of the size and lighting. When looking at the photo it does not evoke any emotion. It is just a generic picture taken of a field that shows players far off in the distance.
This is a professional photo taken at the same football game closer up and with a much better camera. In this photo the foreground is in focus while the background is blurred and seems to fade away. This gives a clear focus to the main subject being player number 5. It is framed in such a way that all we do is look at the most important part of the picture without any extraneous parts. There is a contrast between the subject and what is extra because the players have bright lighting and the background is almost blacked out. The camera angle is straight and directly in front of the main player. This provides a clear focus to the image on the subject. The size of the photo is cropped and is also taken with a professional camera with high resolution. This allows the photo to be viewed in larger sizes. The main subject is player number five carrying his helmet and walking onto the field. Everyone else in the photo has their back turned and is blurred out so that it is evident that we are focusing in on the subject. When looking at the photo the viewers feel his emotions of excitement and happiness.
These photos have more contrasting qualities to them than similarities. In my amateur photo it exhibits poor focus and clarity, framing, lighting, size, and subject while the professional photo has all excellent qualities to it. The only comparison of the two is how well the camera angle is. In the amateur photo, it is taken elevated so that the entire field is shown and in the professional photo it is taken from straight ahead to show the main subject.
The title, while it provides new information to the reader about the content included in the rest of the article, is difficult to understand at first glance. It may be because it is too lengthy and includes too many phrases, so the main point is difficult to pick out. All the right information is there, but making it more concise or choosing different words could make it a better title, such as: "Professional versus amateur photographs of the same subject show wildly different qualities."
ReplyDeleteThe article contains many good examples of the differences between the photos, such as resolution, contrast, lighting, and the ability to show emotion, which the reader can observe by looking at the pictures within the article. The author discusses similar aspects of the two photographs, allowing the reader to observe and compare them in both. By showing the pictures as evidence, the reader is able to witness and therefore agree with the information provided, which strengthened the blog post. It was apparent that the professional photo demonstrated enhanced features and qualities than the amateur photo. The placement of the photos was also helpful, each being placed next to the information that pertained to it, so that the reader does not have to scroll or search for the photo when reading about it. A link to where the professional picture was found would have enhanced the article further, by providing a place for readers to possibly observe other professional photos and look for similar qualities. In addition, breaking the lengthy paragraphs up more and providing subtitles would make the information easier to portray to those who may not take the time to read the post in depth.
Overall, I was able to learn something about the difference between amateur and professional photographs from the post, but enhancing the title and breaking up the content would have made the main points easier to determine.
At first glance, the title of this post appears to have a great deal of information about what is to come in the post. Though it contains good phrases that could be rearranged to create a more clear and concise title.
ReplyDeleteThe structure of the post itself is good because the author discusses amateur and professional photography separately and then together to bring the post to a good conclusion. The author points out differences in angle, framing, focus, clarity, and the reaction the pictures evoke from its viewers. Using two completely different pictures aids in getting the point across that the two types of photography yield very different results when juxtaposed and analyzed. Perhaps adding more than one of each type of photo could have provided emphasis on each point by exhibiting focus on each difference the two types of photos have. The author also could have added some information about cameras used in general amateur photography versus those used in professional photography in order to understand that the quality of pictures varies greatly due to the quality of the cameras used to take them.
The post was, altogether, informative and educational, but with some grammatical fixes and some extra information, the post could be slightly clearer and easier to comprehend.