These pictures are from when we went inside the Basilica on campus during class and we took photos trying to capture dramatic lighting that would look good in black and white. I took a bunch of photos but these two were my favorite and even though they were supposed to be in black and white I had a hard time deciding if I like them better that way or in color.

These pictures represent the 10 Rules of Composition that we learned about, I had never learned about these before so it was very helpful to me in learning how to take better photos. The only challenge is trying to keep them all in mind while you're taking pictures, so we tried to just focus on one specific rule for each picture. My favorite of all the pictures is probably the one I took for Biggest, Boldest, Brightest:

 (Rule of Thirds)

 Merger (after)

 Merger (before)

 (Room for Logical Movement)

 (Leading Lines)

 (Keep It Simple or K.I.S.S.)

 (Impact)

 (Framing)

 Cropping (after)

 Cropping (before)

 (Biggest, Boldest, Brightest)

(Balance)

This was an assignment where we had to take portraits of a person we knew so picked my friend Tess and we went to Mary's Garden on campus. It was fun to photograph a living subject but there were more moving parts with having to pick the angle and position of the photo as well as having to pose the subject and make her feel comfortable. 

This was an assignment where we had to photograph the same object without moving it 10 different times. It was a challenge to find 10 different angles but it forced me to be more creative, I think my favorite is the sixth one that's the panorama from above of my kitchen counter.