Today we were asked to work in groups of 3 and go around our school to shoot a series of images using various camera shots/angles. This is a collection of the shots my group took today:
An Extreme Close Up (ECU) using Backgrounds:
This shot is useful because it shows the subject of the photo in greater detail. In this photo we blurred the background slightly in order to emphasise the significance of the berries in the first photo and the nettles in the second photo.
A Long Shot (LS) using the Rule of Thirds:
This shot is useful as it shows lots of other detail in the background of the photo while also concentrating on the main focus of the picture which is the sculpture of a tree. By using the rule of thirds we were able to centralise the sculpture, this emphasised the idea that the sculpture is the most important thing in the photo.
Low angled shot:
This shot is useful for making the subject of the photo (in this case the sculpture) look more important as it dominates the photo. Furthermore, you could say that this angle allows the audience/receiver to feel as though they're viewing the subject of the photograph from the eyes of someone who is small in terms of their height.
An Establishing Shot:
Establishing shots are useful as they set the scene and are
designed to show the audience/receiver where the action is about to take place.
Establishing shots aren't just good for indicating location but they also show
time (for example the time of day) characters/relationships (might show all
characters in a particular scene) and can be used to establish a concept rather
than a location.
Three different viewpoints from angles of our choice:
Taking three different shots offers different perspectives of the scene. For example, the first shot of the car could show the perspective of someone looking at the car from the window of a house, the second photo could show the car arriving at it's destination and the last shot could show the car having already arrived at it's destination.
