My Flick Pick

I just recently watch Top Secret again. It has been a very long time since I saw it; however, I fell in love with this scene all over again.

My Framing

Here is a shot out at Sand Hollow. This is the first frame of a slow pan to the right that reveals a motorcycle kicking up dusk and riding towards the camera.

THE ANALYSIS: The sun glare is left justified from the lower left third to the upper left third. The far shore line travels alone the upper third line with the near shore line entering the shot on the lower third and transitioning on the diagonal up to meet the far shore. Pulling ones eye through the picture from left to right. This is know in cinematography as putting the triangle in thirds.

Here is a shoot of my son. We made it for a 3D insert gag. A UFO flies into the frame later.

THE ANALYSIS: My son is in the left third and the blue sky cross along the frame on the upper third line and the sun glare is on the right third line. The victor is him pointing; however, I will admit I was not taking victor into mind when I composed this shoot.

Here is one of my favorite place to shoot. a very interesting phenomenon happens here. People hang their shoes on a tree along the highway to Zions Park.

THE ANALYSIS: The bulk of the shoes are are justified to the left third. A smaller clump is on the right third just to add a little weight to the frame. I used gravity and a Dutch angle to create the diagonal victor line. It starts in the upper left corner and pulls the eye down through the picture to the lower right corner.

Website

I chose to analyze Bike Nashbar’s website because at the advice of my doctor I have started exercising more. I really enjoy riding my bike and since I live in St George I can ride it year around. What made me pick this site was its really strong grid. It is well laid out. The business objective is fairly straight forward so there is no need to spend a lot of time discussing that. However, I did find it every interesting that for a company that markets bike parts over the web nationally they are using “Fat Tuesday,” a mardi gras theme, to promote a special. I found the site to look and feel clear even though there is a lot of information on the page. I believe it is because it is well laid out with most of the communication coming to me in the nonverbal form of pictures and colorful graphics. Along the top of the page is an intuitive navigation bar to help me drill down deeper into the website if I’m looking for something specific.