Post 21

Now I'm starting to come to the end of the photos I have chosen to upload here from my collection of photos I took last semester as part of the "30 images" coursework.

This photo was actually shot at sunset and it was not yet night-time, but as it was still winter at the time, the moon decided to come out and make its presence known anyway. The building where the moon is seen shining through has its top floor burnt out, as apparently the top floor caught fire a few months back.

Even though this image was not photographed at night-time, I suppose it does give the impression of being photographed at night-time because of the psychological effect of the moon and the fact that the human mind isn't infallible when it comes to recognising night-time scenes, which is why in TV shows in scenes that are supposedly "totally dark", there is always a small studio lamp switched on so that the camera can see something. Not many people seem to acknowledge that.

The framing of this image is done in such a way that the moon shining through the burnt-out windows and the top of the burnt-out building are the things which immediately grab the audience's attention, with the night sky being noticed next, with the rest of the building being noticed last as that has absolutely no importance at all to the rest of the picture. the only reason i included some more of the building in this photo than was originally needed is because the image would look rather bad if it didn't. there are certain requirements for a photo like this, and if there is too much headroom or the camera (which was a non-SLR Panasonic Lumix digital camera) will start to take blurry images if zoomed in too much.