This is a photo of pencil crayons lined up to show rhythm. As you can see I went through and put the photo into black and white and then color corrected the yellow, red and blue pencil crayon back into the photo. This photo was taken in front of a white background laying on the ground.

This is one of my favorite photos because I like the pop of color each pencil crayon gives off. It was an easy photo to take as the pencil crayons were already laying around my house and the white back ground is just the back of a note book that was white.

This photo was taken in my room, on the floor, nothing special. I had my room light on and the lamp in the corner just to add some extra light but my room isn’t really that bright with both of them on anyways.
Turquoise is my favorite because the photo is simple, yet it looks beautiful and picture perfect. One day I got home from school, it was about 3 weeks ago and I thought that it would be a good time to take some photos even if they were just around my house, I could get creative. It was a sunny day, so I knew some light would come in through my blinds and make my room the perfect lighting to take some photos. Turns out this is my favorite photo I took for my Photo Assignment 2, or Extraordinary Shots.
The pencil in Turquoise leads your eye through the whole image, and you can tell that the pages are smooth on the book. Since the book is plain and the back ground and foreground isn’t super exciting it really emphasizes the color and shape of the pencil. You can see the carpet and the texture of kind of rough material and at first I didn’t think I would like it with the carpet but it helps make the photo more interesting and more things to look at.

This is a photo of pencil crayons lined up to show rhythm. As you can see I went through and put the photo into black and white and then color corrected the yellow, red and blue pencil crayon back into the photo. This photo was taken in front of a white background laying on the ground.

This is one of my favorite photos because I like the pop of color each pencil crayon gives off. It was an easy photo to take as the pencil crayons were already laying around my house and the white back ground is just the back of a note book that was white.

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