Year in Photos: 2014

1. Photojournalism

2. Light as a subject

3. Mostly artificial, many light sources, the photographer used light as the subject in this photo.

4. This photographer most likely used a high shutter speed and continuous shoot to capture this quick event.

1. Portrait

2. Simplicity

3. Artificial, most likely more than one, and they used their own arrangement of lights for this to get a good balance.

4. The photographer setup their lights to light their subject like such.

1. Cityscape

2. Simplicity

3. Natural, the sun, the photographer used the time of day to have the clouds diffuse the light.

4. The photographer could have waited for this exact time.

1. Landscape

2. Depth of field.

3. Natural, the sun, this could not have been done at night, so there is that.

4. The photographer must have been in a helicopter to get this angle.

1. Photojournalism

2. Depth, framing

3. Artificial, many light sources, the lights prevail through the smoke and dust, lighting the launch pad.

4. The photographer took this remotely, using a timer to calculate the exact time of launch.

1. Photojournalism

2. Cropping

3. Mixed, possibly many light sources, 

4. First, they had to be allowed into the funeral, and then they had to wait for the officer to go up to the casket.

1. Landscape

2. Circular Composition

3. Natural, the sun, the light shows the fully enveloped explosion.

4. This photo had to be taken from a helicopter mere moments after it's conception.