AlexBrown_1to10 2 best photos

I decided to choose these photos as my other two best photos I took for the 1 to 10 assignment project. I liked the top photo because of the shallow depth of field, the lighting, and the focus. I like that Teddy's hand is the only thing that is in complete focus and the rest is blurred out. I also think it was good that his hand wasn't cut off from the photo because it doesn't take away the quality of the photo. I also thought this was a good 5 photo because 5 fingers are in clear focus and popping out in the photo towards the front of the photo. I also think the lighting was important because with a little bit of overexposure it washes out and blurs most of the distractions in the background of the photo. The part of the photo above that really catches my eye is his face which isn't in very crisp focus at all which draws your eyes into the photo the most. I think with Teddy wearing a ring on his hand it brings in a lot of bright gold-ish and a little bit of blue light, grabs your attention into this photo. I think if he was in complete focus you'd see more of the busy background clearer which would distract the viewer more. I also like the bottom photo with the 9 shells in the shape of the number 9 because of its two mixture of balanced colors in this photo because it has a good contrast of white over orange-ish yellow in this photo. I decided to put a black book underneath the shells to balance the shells from a distracting tiled floor because I thought adding a black book would smoothen out the essence of the photo a little bit. I like that some of the shells are in clear focus while others aren't in clear focus at all. I cropped almost all of the tiled floors around the shells and the book except for the top of the photo because I thought it would make the photo less distracting to look at. I like that most of the shells are in a uniform color pattern except for about 3 of the 9 shells are a mixture of white and orange. I think with the exception of the 3 non solid orange shells catches your attention to the detail of this photo and try to examine what you can notice in this photo. I wish that part of the white tiled floor on the top of the bottom photo wasn't in this photo because it takes away the smooth black book underneath the shells. I took these photos on my Nikon D3200 without flash and slower shutter speed to get good lighting and color in these photos.