HDR

Depth of Field and focus:

This photo has a shallow depth of field.  The blurred background helps the image pop out. Although I do think the background is a little distracting, I think the blurriness helps make the background less distracting.  I think the focus is on the leaf of the grapes.  With the focus on the leaves it makes you look at the picture a little longer to figure out what the image is composed of.  

Exposure:

Since the picture is an HDR image this photo is taken at multiple shutter speeds.  When all the pictures are added together it causes the image to have an exposure with light lights and dark darks.  Something I could have done to improve the exposure of this picture is made the iso higher.  I think that would have made the picture quality better.  Two things that were hard to because of the slow shutter speed was keeping the camera still and keeping the camera in the same place because it is an HDR image.

Lighting:

In this picture I used synthetic lighting.  The lighting makes the picture look more orange .  The light was coming from above, and it was slightly behind.  On the top of the grape you can see a reflection of the light source.  Something I could have changed about the light source was have it coming from behind the camera, which would have made the background from being quite so distracting.  

Lines:

In this picture the lines on the leaf of the grapes leads into the stem and the purple part of the grapes.  The  subject also takes up two thirds of the picture.  I think something I could have changed would be all the empty space around the outside.   In the majority of my pictures I do waste a lot of space, but specifically in this picture the area is distracting.  The end of the stem also draws the eye which is my third form of lines.  

Colors and values:

In this photo a realistic color scheme is used.  In the photo the colors are bright because of the three pictures being combined.  I used a realistic color scheme because last time I used an unrealistic one I got marked down for it.  Also I used realistic because the grapes were glass the colors were not exactly like grapes, so it started off to be slightly unrealistic and i thought it would be too much to make that much of a difference.  

Composition:

In this picture I filled two thirds of the picture.  That mens I used the rule of thirds.  In this picture I don't think that the colors blend very well together.  Which makes the composition of pictures poor.  To fix my issue of composition i could have changed the background and used up more space.