PhotoJ - Review - unfinished

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The Lipizzan horse Jonny panics during the show of ''The Spirit of America'' on December 3rd in Harrisburg, PA. He's part of the show since years so he slowly became anxious and crazy, that Eric Thompson and Micheal Smith, his trainers, had big problems to control him.

After a long journey from the Kongo to South Africa, Mala tries to sleep for a few hours in her new home. She just got brought to South Africa to get better medical treatment because she got infected with HIV by her mother.

Rules of Photography

1. Rule of Thirds: Your picture is divided into 9 equal sections, by 2 vertical and 2 horizontal lines, and your main element should be placed on these lines
2. Balancing Elements: If you just have one main object in your picture and it's more on the border of the picture, you should include another object so that the picture is ''balanced'' with the objects
3. Leading Lines: Lines in you picture make it more attractive and it's nicer to look at. You can use diagonal, zigzag, curvy, straight, etc.
4. Symmetry & Patterns: Symmetry and Patterns are eye-catching, if they occur in you picture, but also breaking those symmetries with a little thing, can be very attractive
5. Viewpoint: A different viewpoint or a unusual viewpoint can be change the composition of your photo and has a massive affect on the message of your photo
6. Background: For a great picture, you should look for a plain, not distracting background, so the main focus is on the object you'll take a photo of
7. Create Depth: For creating a more 3-dimensional picture you should include a background, middle ground and foreground, so the picture has depth in it
8. Framing: For isolating your main subject you can ''frame'' it with natural things, like trees, archways and holes. You should place them around the edge of your main object
9. Cropping: Sometimes the main subject in your photo is to small to have enough impact, then you should crop it so that you clearly see, what you main subject is
10. Mergers and avoiding them: You should avoid having a big object in your background, that could interfere with you main subject

Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO

• Aperture - a hole in your camera, through which the light travels (the larger the hole, the more light passes through, the smaller the hole, the less light passes through). It also controls the depths of field, which makes the picture more or less sharp (if the aperture is large, the depth of field is small, if the aperture is small, the depth of field is large). These are the f-numbers on the camera.
• Shutter Speed - the length of time, the camera shutter is opened (slow shutter speed lets more light into the camera, fast shutter speed lets less light into the camera). It is measured in fractions of seconds (shutter speed=1/15 -> one fifteenth of a second)
• ISO - the level of sensitivity of your camera to light (higher ISO, higher sensitivity, lower ISO, less sensitivity). It is measured in numbers (100, 200, 400, 800, 1600,…). But a higher ISO also increases the chance of getting grain/noise in you image

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