Dawn's photo with text critique

1) The first photo is of a brown wired fence that showcases a horse and a welcome sign.  I think this picture is very well exposed, and you can see a lot of texture in both the fence and the horse structure.  I think her framing is well utilized because you can see the entire horse, and you also get the feeling that the fence carries on past the picture frame.  I would have liked it if the flags were not in the picture so that she could have lined up the horizontal line of the fence with the top of the picture.  I think because she used a lower angle and didn't focus straight on the picture she was able to really get the entire view of the horse.  The picture is also well balanced, I think the greenery in the background helps weigh out the heaviness of the brown fence.  The composition also has a foreground and a background because of how the fence separates the two areas.  Overall I think the photo was very well taken. 


2) The next picture is of an older building that has the text antiques as a sign.  The one thing I wish was changed about this picture is the top line of the building.  I would have liked her image to have been pretty skewed so that the top line of the image would have been the top of the building.  I do like how it showcases a frame within a frame, and you can see inside the window to the building.  Even though I wish the sky was cut out of the picture, you can tell that her camera was very well exposed because the brightness of the sky did not effect the end result of the picture.  This image also utilizes the line composition by including both horizontal and vertical lines.  She also incorporates shape, not only through the separations in the window, but also in the pottery that you can see on the inside.  I like how the color blue is carried throughout the picture, as well as the brown boarders surrounding the building. I think she did a really great job in capturing text in her image and by using a lot of the compositional strategies.  


3) The last picture is of a red and white plane.  I really love this picture, I think her angle is great because you get the feeling that the plane is going to take off right out of the frame.  I do wish that she would have sat down a little lower so that you could have seen more of the top wing of the plane.  This image also has a lot of lines carried throughout the picture, in both the plane and the building in the background.  The window at the top of the plane also shows a frame within a frame.  This picture is probably my favorite out of all three because the colors of the plane really pop and you know exactly what the focus was on.  Her whites really pop as well as the black, and you can hardly see the slight shadow the plane is making.  I think this was a really unique picture, and you can tell Dawn really went out to find a different type of image, that was not only incorporating text, but was also very interesting.  Overall it is a great picture that is balanced and appealing.