I don't know who this panorama is by either but I love the color of the sky and the orange on the horizon. I love how it looks like the sky will go on forever and it feels like the sky is right above your head low. The orange color really stands out amongst all that black and purple and blue. It creates a reflection of orange and it's beautiful. The rocks in the front of the image also add to make the image more unique rather than just another sky and horizon image.

I don't know who shot this panorama but I think the perspective is really cool. It makes it look like each side is leaning in but still straight. It's a different view than if you just shot it straight down and I love the one leading line down the middle leading to the small tall thing in the far center.

This is a photo by Henri Cartier Bresson and it's cool and creepy at the same time. I love the swirling stairs. The geometric shape of it is wonderful. It's so simple, yet so strong and complex at the same time. I love how all the heads are all squished together and it gets squishier and closer as it gets higher up. If the heads aren't there then it wouldn't be as cool because it would just be like any other spiral shape that photographers take, not as cool as this. He put a unique spin on it.

What Makes a Good Photo?

To make a good photo I think emotion is really important. If you feel one way but you try to shoot another emotion then the photo will turn out bad because it's not what you really want/feel. It's more fake and it's not sincere. Every image should have an emotion when the viewer looks at it because then it's a meaningful image having some importance to it showing the photographer's feelings. Another thing that's important is the composition. If it's bad composition then the photo won't be as strong and won't have as much feeling in it. If it's a good composition, most of the time, it automatically has emotion and feeling in it. When I shoot a good image, I have this feeling in me that the image is going to be strong. I think composition is more important than emotion because composition is basically one of the big factors that makes or breaks an image. A third thing that's very important is color. If the white balance is off then the whole image looks weird and it doesn't look as clean cut and good. I learned that lesson when I didn't really care about white balance and I was always like oh that looks close enough, but it wasn't. It turned out ugly and I couldn't print some images to turn in because of this. Color is what sharpens the image and it's what enriches the image. A vibrant red can cause lots of emotion and make the image strong while a bad red doesn't show anything. It shows bad white balance and bad color.

Assignment #4- Panoramas

This is my other panorama. I finally got it to go on the blog. I don't like this one as much as my Wells Fargo building one and the construction one I shot. I like the view of this though because everything's supposed to be horizontal across but I changed it to this view because I think it's a lot cooler.

Assignment 4- Panorama 3

This is my 3rd panorama. I really like this one because of the shapes and the whole thing how it goes up. I wasn't originally going to take photos of this but I decided to do it because I saw it and I was like this is awesome. I really like the red of the color because it stands out against the sky and the black construction behind it. This is really cool and I love panoramas.

Assignment 4- Panorama 2

I don't like this panorama as much as my first one of Liberty Park. I decided to crop off a lot of the blue sky at the top because I thought there was way too much. I like the other one better because it seems more beautiful and more likable and this one is more angled and up. I like horizontal panoramas better I guess. This one is of the Wells Fargo building downtown and I took it the same day as the Liberty Park one. This one I like the shapes on the building, the rectangles of the window and and angled structure, but that's all I like of it.