Becker_Cyan

The photo of the bridge is done by Pavel@M on flickr. The bridge is printed on fabric, and the compositional technique that the photographer uses really well is leading lines. The lines of the bridge lead you into the photo and throughout the entire piece. I think that there are also a lot of texture that are being used in the piece to break up the photo. The bridge is made out of wood which is smooth and grainy, and then the trees and clouds. I also like how the photo fills the entire frame, with the bridge even going off the page quite a bit. Even the sky isn't blank or boring because of the dark cloud. I think that a lot of things drew me to this photo, but mostly the way the composition was set up with the lines, and also the contrast. I am always a fan of high contrast, but I feel like in this photo the darker areas are well "placed" in the picture to make up the over all composition which adds balance and harmony.

The elephant is done by O.Blaise on flickr. It doesn't say if what this photo is printed on so I'm assuming that it is printed just on paper. I think that overall I just like this print because, come on, it's and elephant. Anyways I suppose I like other things about this photo also. Even though there are no straight lines in this photo, I think that it has great leading lines. I think that the bold white in the photo is the first thing that I look at, and then I fallow the line of white through the image and all the way down the the small areas like the bottom of the foot. I especially like the contrast in this photo and how there is a good balance of darks and whites. I also like the texture and movement of the water on the top of the image, and then that to the skin of the elephant, to the smooth lack of texture in the rest of the image. I think that if the image had been all the texture of the water on the top of the image, that I wouldn't have liked the image as much as I did because of this.

The city scene is done by Ezotobyd on flickr. I'm not even sure if this image is a cyanotype, but I really like it so I put it on here too. I like how this image is using light. I think it's interesting how dark the image is, but then how dramatic the light is and how it is strategically placed. This is what I hope to accomplish in my self portrait.

The picture of the water with stuff in it is done by HOW DARE YOU on flickr. I do like this image a lot and I'm not sure if it is a cyanotype or not either, but I like the flickr user name.

My photogram is the deadline *dandelion. When I spelled dandelion wrong, my spellcheck changed it to deadline....any who this image is by Scott.Symonds on flickr. I'm guessing that this photograph is on paper, but it didn't say. It was hard for me to find any photograms that I liked because they remind me of those things you make when you're a kid where you just tape a leaf into your scrapbook. Although I do like this image, mostly because of the light behind the dandelion and the texture. I also like how the edges of the image are darker. The fact that the dandelion is a silhouette is also interesting. I think that because of the light coming from behind, that the contrast is good. I feel like this image and a lot of the other images that I have been finding that are the photograms are right smack dab in the middle of the page, and lack any sort of good complex composition.