Photography Assignment

1. Photography Assignment By: Brandon Villarosa

2. Rule of Thirds Roger Federer plays a backhand in his quarter-final match against Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina at the Australian Open in Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, on January 24, 2012. 

3. Balance A dog runs through the path lined by faithful as they wait for the the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI in Guanajuato, Mexico, on March 24, 2012.

4. Unbalance Policemen keep watch over striking miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, on August 16, 2012. South African police opened fire on thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin'sMarikana platinum mine, leaving many bloodied corpses lying on the ground. Police had set up barricades of barbed wire, but were outflanked by an estimated 3,000 miners massed on a rocky outcrop near the mine. A total of 34 miners were killed that day, another 78 wounded.

5. Perspective The full moon rises through the Olympic Rings hanging beneath Tower Bridge during the London 2012 Olympic Games, on August 3, 2012.

6. Lines Star trails, city lights, and lightning strikes appear in this composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth. Expedition 31 Flight Engineer (and photographer) Don Pettit: "My star trail images are made by taking a time exposure of about 10 to 15 minutes. However, with modern digital cameras, 30 seconds is about the longest exposure possible, due to electronic detector noise effectively snowing out the image. To achieve the longer exposures I do what many amateur astronomers do. I take multiple 30-second exposures, then 'stack' them using imaging software, thus producing the longer exposure." A total of 18 images photographed by the astronaut-monitored stationary camera were combined to create this composite.

7. Shapes Venus moves across the Sun in this image captured by Japan's satellite Hinode, on June 6, 2012. On that day, Venus passed directly between the sun and Earth, a transit that won't occur again until 2117.

8. Textures Lampposts are covered in ice in the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia, on February 7, 2012. Europeans across the continent battled weeks of extreme winter weather, with thousands trapped by snow in remote, mountain villages in the Balkans.