Frames

In this shot, my rabbit's body is in the lazy frame, while her head is to the left of the lazy 

frame. I think that all attention is on the rabbit in this picture.

In this shot, bunny is in the lower left of the frame. Although she is still the focus of the picture, more background is exposed which adds more detail to the picture.

Here we have my 13 year old brother, Bair, holding my bunny in his room. He is to the left of the lazy frame. I think that the background helps define him as the subject and gives the viewer a better idea of who he is.

Here is one of my dogs in our guest room. He is in the upper left of the photo. Although he is the subject, a lot of the rug is visible in the photo and you can see that he is under a chair. He is out of the lazy center frame entirely.

I don't really know why bunny is in a sink, but I guess she just is. In this shot, bunny is not quite entirely in the center frame, but very close. Granted there isn't a lot going on in the background of this photo, you can really see what a difference having the subject in the middle frame makes. The eye goes right to the subject and really stays there.

Here is Bair again. He is partially in the center frame here. There is a lot less detail in this photo and the subject is definitely the main focus.

Here is an unhappy Bair in the bottom center/bottom right of the frame. He takes up a big part of the lower part of the frame, but the rest of the frame is a detailed background.

Bair also takes up the most of the bottom half of the frame here, but like the previous picture the top half shows the background.

Bunny is in the lower part of the center of the frame. I think that the subject grabs the majority of the attention whenever it is placed in the middle.

Look, it's a bunny! (shot examples)

Medium

Long

Long

Close

Extra close

establishing shot

Depth of field

low angle

high angle

establishing shot

Fate or coincidences?

Fate is a hard thing for me to grasp. It is baffling to me that ones life could be a course of predetermined events. I can't wrap my head around the idea that my whole life has been planned out and that my actions have no effect on what happens to me. I do believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't underestimate an individual's power to control their own lives. I believe that events in my life have happened for a reason and that if I make the best decisions possible and work my hardest to be the best person I can be, my life will fall in to place. 

I really found myself relating to John Anderton from Minority Report. Anderton catches a glimpse of his future when precogs predict that he will murder a man named Leo Crow in 36 hours. Although he has been set up and it was not him who murdered Leo Crow in the vision, I still related to his effort to change his future. What I took away from Minority Report in terms of life lessons is that nobody's future is never set in stone, and that everyone has the power to take control of their own life. I don't think that the example of fate In Oedipus is very realistic. Oedipus being doomed to his fate despite any of his actions seems unrealistic to me but also very tragic.