Okay, we're moving now into an analysis of a photograph of your own choosing - if it's possible, post it above your blog entry so that we have something to work from. I'd like you to the same project with this one that you did with the Lange photograph. Please be deliberate, in one way or another, about discussing technique and composition in this photograph, using specific vocabulary when appropriate.
Tyler closed his Dorothea Lange entry with this: "Prior to reading the vast information regarding the technical aspects of photography I didn’t really examine the technical qualities of the photo taken by Lange but after reading my opinion on what is going on in the photo remains relatively the same. " I suggested to Tyler that the technique may have led him to his interpretation without his awareness, which makes it more interesting to think about. Your analysis should still focus on what the picture is "about," whatever that means for each photograph, but you want to explore how you came to understand the picture as about that, which will, in the end, demand an examination of some technique. This does not have to be a "technical analysis" where you dryly list vocabulary words, but I want you to ask questions of the composition and the photographers' tools that illuminate your particular choice.
Remember: be specific. Describe things. Make claims. Have an argument about the photograph. And don't rush your entry: think, and write, and even revise.
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