The Rockefeller Gardens
The Rockefeller Gardens provided the students with a magnificent location to enjoy photographing the beauty of nature. From a photographer's viewpoint, the gardens serve the purpose of drawing more attention to the organic lines and shapes that are not typically found in urban areas. Also, they allowed Natalie to focus more on texture, composition, repetition, and form in her pictures. Contrary to using center placement, Natalie strived to differ her images from the cliché pictures of flowers. Instead of placing the subject in the center, she demonstrated the rule of thirds in all of her photographs. Since many plants need a lot of light, the greenhouse let in more than enough light in to satisfy her camera. Additionally, for the purpose of drawing more attention to the subjects of her images, Natalie used a shallow depth of field in a few. The shallow depth of field let her keep the subject completely in focus and make the rest of the image blurry. Her high contrasting, bright images helped the beautiful colors of the gardens to show through the photographs. In contrast, not all of these images presented nature. Natalie took some pictures of features that usually go unnoticed to the public eye, such as the structure and mechanics of the building. In conclusion, Natalie felt that her images showed all of the characteristics of the gardens by capturing the beauty of nature and examples of the hard work that it took to make the Rockefeller Gardens a jewel of the city.