Photography 2 how to be a BETTER photographer
Layering In story-telling through Photo-Journalism, secondary elements add to your story-telling power. FOREGROUND ELEMENTS
BACKGROUND ELEMENTS
Angle Shooting from unusual angles adds interest allows the viewer a fresh look at the subject Look for angles capture the mood you want the viewer to feel capture the inspiration you want to project
1. Bird s eye view (Shoot down from a high point on the subject).
2. Worm s eye view (Shoot at the same level as the subject).
Cropping Starts with the photographer filling the frame with important content...... THEN eliminating unnecessary elements. Cropping makes photos more interesting. Horizontal or vertical cropping may emphasize content. DO NOT reduce the size of the photograph!!! (it will alter the quality)
Horizontal cropping
Panning Not an easy technique to master 1. Focus on center of interest & the camera moves to follow the subject. 2. Shoot at a lower shutter speed. This will blur the background and keep the center of interest sharp. 3. 2 nd type is to hold camera steady and allow the subject to move through the viewfinder of the camera.
lower shutter speed
subject moves through the viewfinder
White Balance Digital cameras have a setting called White Balance which compensates for the color casts emitted by light with different color temperatures. 7 white balance settings: Fluorescent Tungsten Cloudy Shade Sun Flash Auto Experiment & read your camera s manual.
Fluorescent
Tungsten
Cloudy
Shade
Sun
Flash
Auto
Daytime Shooting Tips 1. Know where the sun is located and determine the direction of the light source. 2. Know the amount of light available: Is the sun low? High? Behind a cloud? Etc. 3. Watch where the shadows fall. Check for shadows around the eyes. 4. Experiment with settings. Each camera is different.
Definition: ISO: In photography, an ISO number is an indication of the sensitivity of the image sensor, where a higher number indicates higher sensitivity. This is usually expressed as a range, e.g. ISO 100-1600. A higher sensitivity allows us to take pictures in low light without using flash. However, this gain usually comes at a price: as we amplify the light signal, we also amplify the noise signal, and high ISO images are usually more "noisy" than low ISO images. Noise reduction software can smooth out the noise but it comes at the expense of losing fine detail. Derived from the Greek isos, meaning "equal". International Organization for Standardization chose this short all-purpose name instead of using its acronym "IOS" so that whatever the country and language, the short form of the organization's name is always "ISO" (pronounced "eye-so").
Indoor Shooting Tips Consider the type of light source; sun, indoor, flame, florescent gymnasium lighting, etc. Set the exposure for the correct light. You can: 1. Increase the ISO 2. Open the aperture 3. Slow the shutter speed 4. Use a flash
Remember to: SHOOT AND SHOOT MORE OFTEN! Even professional photographers do not take perfect photos all the time. If you get ONE or TWO good photos out of every 24 or 36 you shoot you have done an EXCELLENT JOB! Think OUTSIDE the box & be creative. Final Thoughts!
Your assignment Choose 4 of the ideas presented in this PowerPoint and take AT LEAST 10 photographs of each, showing how those ideas can be applied. Create a PowerPoint of the 4 concepts, clearly marking each, including at least 2 GOOD examples, each on their own slide, and at least 8 that were not as successful you may put 2 per slide of these. Blurry does not count as unsuccessful. Write one paragraph for each of the ideas in which you define concept, explain how you investigated it, and conclude with your discoveries about it. Paragraphs should have an opening sentence, 3 sentences describing your three points, and a closing sentence stating your final conclusion. 100 points