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In Order are: 1. [|Afghan Girl]By Steve McCurry 2. [|Christopher Walken] By Mark Seliger (The photo is on the bottom of the page) 3. [|A Portrait of a Lovely Lovely] By Edwin Leung

The lighting for the first photograph was natural as it was taken in a third-world country, and studio lights are not readily available there. They most likely took it outside in the shade or some sort of shelter where they were able to get shadows on the girl's face. The second photograph has artifical lighting as it is was taken inside of a studio. The lighting is dramatic as it highlighted his face greatly, and it also threw harsh shadows in rest of the portrait. The third photograph's lighting is artifical with studio fill. It shows the woman's face with soft shadows.

The compositional technique that the photographer used for the first photograph was fill the frame. He used the girl's face to fill in as the subject of the photograph. The second photograph has the technique The Thirds as when you look at it vertically there are something interesting in each section such as the hand, the face, and his hair. The third photograph applies the techinque of fill the frame, as to make people focus on the subject of the photo with its striking features.

I chose the first photograph because you can truly feel the emotion coming from her eyes. That struck me and it made me think of what the subject could have been thinking at the time. The second photograph, I was amused by his posture and expression and it is a very entertaining photograph to look at. The last photograph, what made me decide it was that the unusual colors made me very interested in the photograph. I felt like it was very striking and unique at the same time.