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2. I evaluated my photos by choosing the ones I thought best fit the assignment. I tried to make sure I picked the best out of the lot of photos I took. These stood out to me because the rose, clearly the subject of the photo, was very clear and stands out from such a close angle. It made the picture even better once it was changed to black and white and the rose was completely the center of attention. I was looking to make the rose the center of the photo without literally centering it. I tried angling myself and the camera so that it focused mostly on the rose without centering it in the photo and this seemed to work for me. 

3. The steps I took to create these photos were pretty simple. I followed the directions about using the flash, I got up close and focused my camera and once I found a subject (the rose) I focused on it from different angles until I felt I had enough pictures to choose from. Then I narrowed my photos down to the best three and edited them in Photoshop. 

4. I like (especially in my first photograph) that the rose is very clear and the background is blurred giving the rose a crystal clear quality. The rose itself was very white even without the black and white editing in Photoshop and this caught my eye in the midst of all the bright colorful photos. I like that my photos pay more attention to the beauty of the rose and that none of the other plants in the photo interfere with that.