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Works found on http://timothywhite.com/gallery

The artist Timothy White likes to use a mix or both indoor and outdoor photoshoots, resulting in both studio lighting and natural sunlight. All of his photos hold an impact in both lighting-the studio lights create a strong dramatic image while the natural lighting creates a softer feel to the photo. His main technique in my favorite photos of his is the rule of thirds (although you can't tell his photo on the left hand side does have more blank space on the left side). In two photos of his ( Ty Tyler (left) and Kerris Dorsey (right)) he made the choice of putting the subject off to the side where the lighting was highlighted on them the most, and choose to filter the photos black and white to give it more of a dramatic edge to them. In the other photo (Glenn Close (center)) he again continued his trend of rule of thirds in his colored photo, and leading lines by using the tree and birdhouse to bring the viewers eye to the subjects. Between these three works it's evident that he 's put time into planning through the photos. For his outdoor photos he'd have to wait until he found the lighting (sunlight) was just where he wanted it and had to snap it before it went away again. In his indoor photo you couldn't just capture the emotion in an instant. It needed planning and thought into creating it and creating the whole story of the singer. Overall I liked these photos the most because they were just interesting to look at. He choose to filter the photos black and white to make them more dramatic, he choose to color them to give life to the picture, and he didn't just place the subject right in the middle of the picture, he moved them off to the side so we could look around and see the other aspects of the picture, instead of it just being a picture of someone. In my pictures I'd like to follow this by making my subjects not the only focus of the photo and experiment with different photos to highlight these part of the pictures.