Blog post #7

I personally find photography a wonderful and beautiful thing. A picture can say a numerous about of things about someone or something. There is nothing more special then capturing that perfect moment and looking upon it for a few decades. Photography is a way of life. It plays a big role on remembering our past and present times. Technology has made it even more personally with things like photobucket and facebook to help others view how you think of things also. They now have applications such as picnik to thoroughly personalize pictures with sweet backgrounds, add color to a picture, make it black and white, or just to crop a picture to a certain size.

A French inventor by the name of Nicephore Niépce was the first ever to construct a photograph, with earlier help from his sibling, who helped to move towards the idea of photography. He was also the first person to fix a photo so it would not deteriorate as quickly. Photography has constantly been used to capture special moments. Even with all his accomplishments only few people know of his name.

I did not know too much about photography until I read the textbook. In our textbook Compose Design Advocate, it gives a whole chapter on analyzing photography. It is a complicated process to come up with ideas about how or when to shoot a photograph. In the book it says that photographs are always rhetorical because the photographer is always making decisions about how audiences’ attentions will be directed and shaped as the audience looks at a photograph. There are three types of strategies, vectors of attention, framing, and cropping. These strategies also help you compose your own photograph. So when asking yourself how to start on a photograph, think of the three rhetorical strategies.