Horizontal Lines Composition
Here, we used horizontal lines as the composition prompt for this shot. Though it could be argued that this would be made up of vertical lines as well, though that is true, the movement across the frame here is driven to be more horizontal. This is because we placed Emmanuel in the middle of two separate horizontal lines, that being the top of the frame holding up the cafeteria roof and the bush on the bottom of the frame. Because Emmanuel was in the dark, I had to bounce light onto his face from a small spot where the sun happened to hit right next to Emmanuel so he is illuminated pretty well.
Vertical Lines Composition
We used vertical lines as the prompt for this picture. We noticed that just outside the field at school, there was an open crate filled with stacks of stored used objects. Stacks are vertical, so we used this vertical movement as a way to add Andre to the stack. We did have to increase the brightness on the camera so that the bounce light was able to even reflect into the crate because the crate was pretty dark. We did have other pictures involving vertical lines as a main subject, however we did find ourselves overcomplicating the search for vertical lines when practically anywhere around the school could've served as a good place for vertical lines. Such things as door frames or even pipes which can be found anywhere in the school or just the sides of a building as a matter of fact could've been a focus for our compositions. Point is, what we ended up learning was that composition can be found in plain sight and that it is pretty important to experiment with the obvious.
Diagonal Lines Composition
We used the diagonal lines composition as the prompt for this shot. We did take several other pictures of Andre in the wall ball courts but among them I would say that this is my favorite. Maybe that is because there does happen to be more depth because the other ones did happen to be a lot more flat to me and I mean that is a good stylistic choice if there is more depth but to me they just seemed like a blank canvas to me. Here we took multiple pictures of Andre jumping onto the side of one of the wall ball courts and we perfectly captured a moment in time in which he appears to have stuck to the wall successfully but really he did slide off afterwards. Here we did have a lot of natural bounce because of how bright the wall ball courts are but the problem was that the sun was to the right of Andre so it made his left a lot more darker. With the addition of the bounce it made all of the lighting more natural.
Converging Lines Composition
Here we used the converging lines composition as the prompt for the photo. Because of the lack of distant roads and sidewalks at the school, it was a little hard finding a properly lit converging lines shot but here was the best that we could find. It still did happen to have its own issues, primarily the patchy tree shadows which are a little distracting to the layout of the shot. Emmanuel also does happen to be placed awkwardly here where the eye is more focused on his pants than his actual face which is a little awkward to look at since it's placed at the top of the frame. It was pretty easy to light the shot here, we just bounced the light a little closer to his face and because there was a wide area of sun light available to us we were able to move as far back or as far forward as we needed to in order to light the shot.