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Packaging design for Peruvian Chocolatier, Death by Xoko.
(Photo tip slide 1) A picture of the water is a picture of the sky. In B/W film a red filter turns the blue of of both the sky and the reflected sky dark. It would be a washed-out white without the filter. In color with no filter, or an A2 haze filter, both the sky and the reflected sky on the water are blue (see Photo tip slide 2).
(Photo tip slide 2) Blue sky and blue water in a color photograph.
The fishermen of Besançon commuted each day on foot or bicycle with fishing gear, food, bottle, and sometimes a dog, to the Doubs River for a full day of fishing.
Photo tip Number 3 — The frame. In each photo the photographer must scan the entire frame with the viewer’s eye in mind.
Where will the viewers eye focus? Where will the viewer’s eye wander? In this case the first picture has a complete frame. It is subtle. The most important frame in this photo is the top. There is a reflected image of the vegetation across the river; it is a small band and inverted in its reflection. The eye will not wander off the top of the photo and the subjects below the midpoint.
The second photo has the top cropped off. The eye can wander, the focus on the subjects and the story may be lost