BOC: Editing a photo

This is a picture of me editing Las Vegas pictures for Diamond Resorts International.  I made it look as if I was working really hard, with my sleeves rolled up, and as if I was supposed to be on the phone with a client while reviewing the photographs I was editing.  You could see the clutter on my desk and important notes on the computer monitor.  You could see the hand sanitizer nearby so I would have clean hands before and after I shook hands with my client.  The picture I was editing is of the Las Vegas casinos with the world-famous sign and another picture I was getting ready to paste over it.  If you look closely, the phone line have two clients I was dealing with.  The other computer to my right is vacant which probably means that I was working late at night trying to finish up a deadline.  The Office Depot boxes are filled with much needed paper for printing and other office supplies.  If you notice in the background are stack of boxes of Ghirardelli chocolates that I would hand out to my clients to entice them to hire me and keep me in mind for future projects.  There's a water-cooler all the way in the corner for those days that the office feels like a boiler room.

So this is what I would look like if I were to work as graphic designer for a company.  As a matter of fact Diamond Resorts International is actually where I work, not as an editor but as a concierge.  So I posed on front of a computer while a co-worker took my picture.  I just used my iphone to take the picture because that was the easiest device to use at work, and that I did not have to explain to my friend how to use my Canon DSLR.  In regards to composition, I had her fill the entire image with me and the computer with little background.  The computer is on the left side of the rule of thirds and the viewers' eyes are drawn to it.  My staring at the monitor also creates implied lines, therefore, once again the computer screen is the subject.  This was a fun picture to take especially getting a co-worker involved with helping me take a picture, and that now they know that other than working full-time, I go to school full-time as well.