I chose this picture because of the color contrasts involved here. The focal subject in the picture is surrounded by several opposites. By opposites I mean different colors. Everyone that is trying to stop him is wearing white, which draws my attention right back to the middle. Purple normally being a calm color, looks rather intense in this picture followed with the yellow. I think the white makes the both colors stand out even more than normal. The Law of proximity is present here, especially with all of these people grouped together. I even think that the law of closure is evident in this picture because at first glance it does seem as if this is one big object trying to achieve one common goal in getting to the hoop.
Advertising: This picture is a picture that would be featured in SLAM magazines Dunk of the week section, and when you see it, it has a drawing affect. To me it makes me want to play basketball, or jump over a mountain for that matter.
Gestalt: This is defined as having sentimental value, or a unified feeling about a particular image, object, etc... I connect with this magazine picture because it is my favorite player, and I view him as dominate, and unstoppable and this picture does it justice. I like to take that approach into everything that I do and this picture gives me a sense of motivation, and overcoming tough tests and trials. I see the Law off similarity, especially within the arms of Shaquille O'Neal and number 6. If you look at their arms it looks like to parallel lines moving in the same direction, Which could be the Law Of Continuity, and with the other arms you see many different angles. Figure and Ground Relationship, I see it here with the court in the background giving off a landscape type of feel along with the camera man. Everything else looks like an environment where as the players look like the objects. Even Pragnanz can be seen because the camera men look as if they are literally right next to the players but really quite a ways away, thus distorting reality to its simplest form.
This Picture doesn't do the same for me as the first picture. This also is a picture you may find in SLAM magazine.
I do see the use of Lines here, and if you forget the rest of the body and look at the arms you can kind make a 90 degree angle out of his arms alone, and he himself is one vertical line going straight up and down. If you look in the background you can see the use of Horizontal lines in the concessions as far as seating, some railing, and the Toyota signs. There is also evidence of vertical and angled lines. This Picture is also I feel reduced to it's simplest form. There is not a lot of complexity in this picture. Opposite of the first picture, I don't see domination but based off the look on his face I feel like he is in pain
