Composition and Manipulation

 With Composition and Manipulation I found it really interesting how photographer's adjust their pictures a certain way to grab the attention of viewers. I never realized how the golden proportion grabs the attention of so many people by just moving the center of the picture to a specific corner. That gives the picture a different point of view.  Another point that was interesting is how Connotation and Denotation changes the meaning of a picture. It changes a perspective with a simple crop, or zoom. The picture taken in Haiti had a sense of Connotation and Denotation, by adding to the dead civilian people walking in the back ground, ignoring her. Also by making the picture inclined, that made the picture look like it was in danger. That gave the picture look like a sense of a cliff or an edge, that gave it a sense of danger. In general manipulating pictures to make a message more dramatic, or to change a meaning of it fascinated me.