Practice Makes Picture Perfect

Inspired by the photography theme of last week’s class, I looked at the photos attached to the stories published on Connect2Mason.com with a whole new perspective. This gallery includes three particularly impressive photos from various stories published on the website. Each one of them effectively captures a powerful photography technique.

The picture on the left is a snapshot of Mason’s Sherrod Wright leaping for a bucket in Mason’s win over William and Mary’s tribe. Through both angle of the shot and the body language of all the players, the photographer created a fantastic sense of motion in the still frame.

The middle shot is from a story about Mason baseball’s first home series of games, and the 2013 season in general. I admire the emphasis the photographer placed on the scoreboard in this photograph. This emphasis is accentuated by the two blurred baseball players that are dwarfed by the scoreboard.

The last photograph in the gallery is of the capital building in Washington D.C., but it honestly doesn’t seem like a legitimate photograph to me. The gorgeous, mildly cloudy, and deeply blue sky in the background makes the photo seem more like a painting. That sense of surrealism gives it awe.

 

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