For this weeks posting i decided to pick this album cover for Jill Scotts cd, it was on of few cover that caught my attention. In this picture, she is leaning up against the wall and you are abla to see a man in the background, but not very well. the lighting in this picture is very bright, but the amount of light is not so much directed at her. In her album its self it has a lot to do with the romancing of couple, and the passion through music within a relationship, i think thhat is why you see the man in the background of the cover looking toward her.

Lighting

In this cover there is a good use of side lighting, you can see how it reflects her shadow on to the side of the wall where she is leaning. There is also a high key lighting coming from behind her, which also causes the man in the bcakground of the picture to almost be washed out. This lighting causes contrast in the picture, (the man in the backgound).

Color

There is a good use of color ocntrast in this cover, it helps to excentuate jill scott as the ablum’s cover main objective. There doesn’t seem to be a high key color or a low key color, its hrad to tell because the are no perticulra colors that stand out thats fall in to a high or low key cataglory.  

Framing

In the cover they there is a wall or piller that stands off to the side. It doesn’t quite get washed out with the rest of the background but it help to bring out Jill Scott. the framing of this cover, i thought was good becasue it bring the focuse in on the artist, it washes out half of the picture its self leaving the artist as its main focuse, as it should be.

Composition

The focal point in this picture is of course Jill Scott, but i also think that she shares it with the actual title of her album, the size of the words and the color of the words themselves, go well with the contrast in the background of the photo. At the same time, Jill Scott is not in the center of the photo, it gives the viewer an oppertunity to see everything better then if she were in the very middle.

 Passion of the Christ was a very emotional movie, showing a portion of the the life of Jesus and His death. In this poster, it shows Christ on the cross on top of a mountain, during his last hours. The shot is taken from a downward angle, making it seem as if the characters are very high up. There is also an “Indexical sigh” the color and the thickness of the clouds in this poster indicats that rain is coming, and in the biblical times it did rain at the hour of Jesus’s death. The lighting in this photo is every dark blending in a lot of the characters, the picture could be using natural light, (if I were there we would be able to determine that) also there is an “Iconic sigh”, the cross its self, the way they enlarged it in the poster and the cross symbolizes Christ sacrafise for His children and His love for us.. Many people who are religious where a cross around their necks as a symbol of just that. Despite the fact that the poster is so dark, its still gives off the emotion of the moment.

The photo uses color contrast well. the way the green blends into the background of the photo, how it bring out the subject more was good. The outside light its self does a good job of high lighting the subjects hair and face from the side. The dark green from the trees in the background do a good jib of contrasting with the clothes of the subject, causing her to stand out a lot more. The photo is  also a “high-key” scene, because of that it makes it hard for the viewer to tell that the photo was taken at a funeral. The framing of the photograph makes it so the everythingaround the female subject is out of focus…. Becasue of the way the picture is set up..it bring out a lot f detail of the subject to the viewer