mitchell_cyan

===This is a photogram shot by Abelardo Morell that is called //Still Line With Wine Glass.// The media used to make this photogram was film, and it was completed in 2006. The composition of this piece is so intriguing because wherever you look on the page, something is going on. The contrast in texture between the wine droplets, the glass table, and the grain of the wine glass against the shadowed background make this piece both beautiful and interesting. Leading lines are evident in the curve of the cup portion of the wine glass, the flow of the spilled wine on the table, and the diagonal lines leading you into the background as well as the trapezoid shaped lines created from the table's shadow. The piece as a whole fills the frame while still retaining the main focus on the spilled glass. A third technique used is framing because three of the four sides have a black mass giving the center of the photogram a comforting, wrapped up in a nice little package feel. The different shades of gray used fill up the space of the shot while adding dimension and emphasizing the different forms like the rounded cup and the straight table, while also giving depth to the patterns of the glass and the wine. There is a balance between the dark black of the bottom half and the light reflected on the background and in the shimmer of the wine droplets. Although there is contrast between the different objects, there is also harmony because you could find any of these objects together in an everyday setting.===

===This is an example of a cyanotype photo that was crafted by Thess'spictures on Flickr. The medium used for this photo was not specified, but I think it might be paper based on the clean, wrinkle-free finished product. The compositional techniques used in this photo are level horizon and filling the frame, which are both self explanatory based on the picture. Leading lines are also used in that they show your eye around the entire page, leading you up and down the tree, towards the sky with the many tangled branched, and to both sides of the horizon. The light reflected around the tree also shows a contrast between the brightness closer to the ground and the darker portion of the sky up above the tree. There is contrast in the different shades and tints of blue, and also between the texture of bark on the tree and the grass in the field. The whole picture is in harmony because it is all nature-centered, and no man-made objects interfere. There is emphasis on the center of the picture, the tree, and rhythm between the shadows on the floor and the shadows on the horizon.===

===This is a photogram shot by linus_lohan on Flickr. The medium used is not said, but I feel like it is either film or paper because of the silky smooth finish of the photo. I love this picture because it reminds me of an ultra-sound in a more artsy, sort of creepy way. This photogram fills the frame with both positive and negative space, and uses leading lines through the repetition of circles, which cause your eye to flow through the piece in a spiral towards the middle, which looks like a baby. There is a wide variety of contrast in the shades and tints of brown used in this photogram. The background space is full of a rich, chocolatey brown that allows your eye to fall backwards into space. Throughout this piece, the texture is smooth and almost silky looking to the eye. The outer deep brown layers fade into the creamy white circles, leaving a trail of in-between brown that is streaked and blurred in some portions. Overall this picture has a calming feel from the symmetry and balance of the circles to the soft texture, this piece is very harmonized. The emphasis is on the "baby" in the middle, but it also focuses on the fact that the repeating circular forms look eerily like an eye. The pattern of the solid, smooth background and the messiness of the blurred lines provide contrast, but also help to unify the image because both are still smooth, even if they appear to have different means of getting to smooth.===