POYi

Undoubtedly, every picture that won the POYi is a masterpiece. They make viewers feel shocked, and then ponder on the background information of the scene, or the photographers' opinion expressed through those pictures. However, most of them are too serious, negative and depressing. Is it the only way to shoot the negative part to make the pictures more profound and valuable? I am not so sure.

If you have interest in serious photographs, you can click this link below, to see the pictures of China's environment, which were taken by a photographer from the New York Times. They are also very impressive, and depressing as those winners' of POYi. When I watched them, I indeed learned much from them. It inspired many thoughts of mine, but also made me feel a little uncomfortable. At least, I will not watch them any more..
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/world/20070826_CHINA_OVERVIEW_FEATURE/index

In the winners gallery of POYi, the "New Pope Annouced" by Barbara Davidson from the Dallas Morning News is my favorite one, because it is really enjoyable. In this picture, the sisters are naturally laughing, out of happieness and excitement when they watch TV and know that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has been elected to be the new pope. In terms of the content of this picture, sisters' laughing is impressive enough for viewers. Also, it has news worth in the election of a new pope. When it comes to the composition of this picture, it also quite successful. That is emphasized by Karen many times is that viewers eyes will firstly grabbed by the lightest part of a picture. In this one, the sister sitting in the sofa wears white dress, so she is the highlight part of the picture. Her looking is the most vivid and touching one in these four sisters. On the other hand, this picture meets the rule of third pretty good. The heads of those two sisters in focus are all on the top one-third line of the image. Beyond that, the photographer press the botton while the sister in blue dress is touching the image of the new pope on TV screen. This motion is quite vivid, and can well express the excitement of her.