This was my Photo of the Week for this assignment. In the critiques it received the most discussion out of all my photographs in the set and is my personal favorite, which is odd because it is the first photo I took for the entire project. For this assignment, I am still using the same phone, an outdated Samsung Galaxy S2 running on Android 4.1.2. I also used the same camera app, "A Better Camera". I use it over my stock camera app for everything. It's just... better.
In order to achieve the over all look of this photograph, I did NOT use any color filters or enhanced the color in any way. After taking the photos, I did however, reduce the saturation just a tad (a quick fix in the stock photo editor on my phone), giving the dead sunflower a more faded yellow look, rather than the blown out red it had processed to in the camera. The location of this photograph is the windowsill of a bay window. When I took this photograph, it was overcast outside, which gave me this soft white light effect and enhancing the nonochrome color, rather than harsh light rays coming through the windows and creating shadows. When I approached this composition in terms of framing, all I was really thinking about was, what I can do to fit everything I want in the frame, without showing too much or too little. I wanted the bottles to appear larger than they really are, I wanted the dead sunflower to just has much, if not more important than the bottles and I wanted the edge of the windowsill to be cut out of the frame on the top left. All of those factors led to this sort of angled, overhead framing, with me leaning over the side of the windowsill, rather than from the front which would have prevented me from getting the portrait angle of the objects successfully.
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