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Picture 1

This image was taken "on the fly" so I didn't really plan what happened. The reason I chose it was because the focusing was just right and at the time I thought it would be good enough to fit the brief and be one of the 5 photos. I decided it wasn't one of the best 5 and still wanted to show the photo so I decided it should be one of the 10. In regards to the rule of thirds, Jack dominates the lower left side but does stick to the rule. The foreground and background are roughly equal in size but Jack is a little too far back. I should have taken the picture closer to the subject.

Perspective wise, I didn't try to have a specific one so the image looks more natural. This image was a moving image while Jack trotted out of the sea. the viewpoint of this photograph is Jack walking about and I took the photo as it shows Jack being natural and just living his life. The lighting sources for all my photos were just the sky so it wasn't controllable. That's why most of my images turned out too dark to use as one of my 10 pictures. This was the same for all of the other pictures I took. I set focus to manual during the still shots and set them to automatic for the moving shots. This one was an automatic focus shot. I always set exposure as automatic and had this for every photo.

Picture 2

The framing of this image was also "on the fly" just like a lot of the action shots including the previous one. This image doesn't really stick with the rule of thirds and wasn't directly planned.  The foreground and background aren't equal and the foreground is too large. I didn't have a perspective for most of the photos I took as a lot of them were action shots to seem more natural. This image was a moving image as at this point Jack was running over to me. The photographic viewpoint of this is a high angle shot with the model towards the left-hand side. I used automatic focusing on this image as it was an action shot even though Jack was slow moving.

Picture 3

The framing of this image was way off and I only added this one in as it was a spot filler for the 10 photographs. I don't like the photo as it doesn't hold to the rule of three, doesn't have a correct placement, the foreground and background are far too large and the model is far too far away. This is a moving image and is an automatic focus photo. There wasn't any perspective but it is a wide angle shot showing Jack running and naturally having fun. In this photo, we do have the shadow of Jack on the sand which darkens the sand naturally.

Picture 4

This image is the first one of the static images. The framing of the picture has the model with his owner in the central columns of the rule of three grid. I had too much foreground for the image so it doesn't look too professional and that's the only reason it's not one of the top 5 photos. The framing of the image was properly controlled as I had a lot more time to plan the shot. The perspective of the photo focuses more on the bond of the owner and dog rather than the dog at the beach. I took the photo at roughly torso level for the owner. Which was a good idea but I should have had it at eye level for either the model or owner. When I took this shot I decided to take this as a manual focus shot due to the models being stationary.

Picture 5

The framing of the image is slightly off and the foreground is quite a bit too big. The image partly holds to the rule of thirds rule and is the last of the 10 photos I'm not editing. Finn is in the central square and Jack is the centre square in the top column. There is too much foreground and too much background too as Finn is the target for the photo. This is one of the action shots so was taken in automatic focus and is also a moving image.  Perspective wise this photo doesn't have any was it was an "on a whim" photo and wasn't planned which is the opposite of the next photo. This photo is a high angle which emphasises the size of Finn and also makes Jack look smaller than he really is.

Picture 6

The framing of this image is a little bit large but it shows Jack and the whole of the environment. The foreground and background are large because of the view I wanted to for the image. Jack, the focus of the image is in the middle quadrant in the rule of thirds which puts him in focus. Unlike the other moving shots, I manually changed the focus point and spammed the "take photograph" button. I went for an eye level photograph as I felt it would make the view more like it's from Jacks view of the world rather than our own.

Picture 7

The framing for this image has Jack, at an angle focused while the wide sea is shown behind him. I made it so that Jack was within the 6 blocks in the ROT grid because it makes the model obviously dominant in the photograph. The background is large in this photo which gives us a view of the open sea. The perspective I had when taking the photo was the focus being Jack enjoying life and smiling while we show the location at the same time. This image is a lot like the image before as it was a manual focus with a moving image which is the last for the moving images within the photoshoot. The viewpoint I had was also eye level like the image before this.

Picture 8

I only have static photographs left so the focus point was always manual. The viewpoint I was going for was a canted angle shot which made it look trashy so in the edit, I will be rotating and cropping the image so that the horizon is straight. This image doesn't work with the rule of thirds but I'm hoping to make it do so within the edit because I feel like it is important for this photograph. I took this picture for the benefit of the owners to say thank you but because it was good and the perspective of the dog's reactions and happiness were conveyed successfully I have decided to use it as one of the 5. The background is leaning on the too large side but I feel like that isn't important due to the editing I will be doing. This image has quite a bit of shadow in which darkens the sand naturally. This is important because it works and gives a certain eerie effect.

Picture 9

Like I said previously, this image and the next image were taken with manual focusing as a static image. The framing in this picture is off key to the rest of the photographs and as slightly too much of the background. I think this because it looks like the beach is the focus of the photograph, not the dogs. This image has the dogs in the left column in the ROT grid and I feel like this does put some emphasis towards the dogs. The viewpoint and perspective I had for this was to try and show the difference in size between the two dogs in which I decided a high angle shot would be best. This was a manual focus photograph as the dogs were stationary when I took the photo.

Picture 10

In this photograph, the framing has Jack as the main focus and makes him dominate the rule of thirds grid. Especially the left and central columns. This photo was only taken for the benefit of the Owners much like the previous photo. The foreground and background of this photo are well-balanced and clearly highlights Jack. The viewpoint I chose for this was an eye-level view so that the image seemed to come from Jack or Finn's view on the world. The perspective for this photograph is mainly using depth of field rather than anything else and it makes Jack in focus and changes the model to stand out to everything else in the photograph.