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Welcome to this lesson on choosing the right photo for an OOB or Out of Boundary Photo Project. I have an OOB Project in progress shown here. It's an old aircraft on static display and I took a photo of it and I thought it would be a good example to show you what OOB looks like. You can see from the layers if I show the entire photo you can see the pylons supporting the aircraft, blue sky and some trees behind it. You'll notice I'm not using the whole photograph, I've chosen something that has a few characteristics that I think you'll find will work the best. It's facing towards the camera even if its off angle, its still facing basically towards the camera and not away and there's something that's sticking out, I think that's a key thing. The nose to the aircraft is sticking out and it looks like you could stick it through a frame and that's exactly what you do. Here in fact is the part that overlays on top. So you can use and I just wanted to put this caveat, you can try to use anything, these are just a few guidelines that I've found to help me narrow down all the photos that I take into ones that might be the best suited for most OOB Photo Projects. Here's one that I think is another great picture but it's not really well suited to this kind of project. First of all you'll notice that a lot of my son Ben is outside of the frame, his head has been cut off and the shoe and his other leg. Which in it of itself doesn't ruin the photo, it's still a charming photo but for OOB I found if you cut things off there's nothing to stick out. Let's say you put a frame somewhere right in here, his nose would be in it, maybe his eyes wouldn't or maybe his elbow would stick out. But I don't think that's a very effective use of this. So when I look at photos that's one thing I consider. Second thing is background; look at these geese walking in the grass. The first characteristic is they are coming towards me which I think is very effective. That would be a good example of choosing this for an OOB Photo Project. However their feet are in grass and if I zoom in here that grass is going to present really difficult challenge to isolating their feet, at least he leading goslings if they were progressing outside of the frame. So that ones a no. Here's nice picture of a car, again I don't think this is a good subject for OOB, mostly in this case because it's pointing straight at us, there's no off angle which you might differentiate something that's coming inside or outside of the frame. If I were to put a frame around this, like so, maybe have part of the front of the car coming out that might work. But I don't think from my artistic sensibility that, that's the best use. So I look for angle off photos. Here's a photo of front of a fire truck, fire engine, again you've got most of this outside of the frame, it is coming toward us but I don't think this would present a very good photo either. Now I'm going to move to one that I do think would, picture of a lion which is actually a stature that's a water fountain at the local zoo. Now the background of this is a little complex but the line that demarks the lion from the background is very clear and clean and that we can isolate. It's facing towards us and it's a very interesting picture. So a frame placed around it could capture most or all of the base or we could cut it off if we liked and the nose of the lion would stick up out from the frame. I think that combines all the elements that I'm looking for. OK, I think we can wrap this lesson up. Those are some of the things I look for in Photos to try to think of what might look good for an OOB Photo Project.