Patterns and Backgrounds

1. Common Rebel
2. This photo was taken of a bush in front of a home in Chandler, Arizona.
3. This photo demonstrates patterns by breaking it. There were many leaves just like this one and if I had used a deeper depth of field it would have just blended into the pattern. But by using a shallow depth of field, I broke the pattern. I'm really like how it turned out :)

1. A Walk
2. This photo was taken at a park in my neighborhood in Chandler, Arizona.
3. This photo demonstrates good background. The background is pleasing to the eye and gives context to the subject. The shallow depth of field gives just enough so that the viewer knows where the subject is but also allows for the viewer's eye to be drawn immediately to the subject.

1. Beauty in the Ashes
2. This photo was taken along a trail in Chandler, Arizona. (It's like I live there or something :P)
3. This photo demonstrates bad background. Even though the subject is interesting and in the forefront, the background colors throw off the viewer and make the photo seem chaotic with too much going on. Even with the shallow depth of field, the random brown blurred splotches are distracting and take away from the subject.

**Just so you know, my blog automatically puts the white edging on all of the photos, so just know that I did not put those on them.