Tues Oct 6

Video: set up your shots to take better photos, take photos from different perspectives,

 expand the way you take photos.

( Watch only until 8:05)

NEW ASSIGNMENT: Macros/Close ups

Macros: ( 10 shots...5 colour ,5 black and white). (Marks 20) Students are to take 5 black and white macros and 5 colour macros. All of the elements of composition should be considered. The photos should be edited  and uploaded to Flickr and put into an album entitled MACROS. Make sure your backgrounds are clean.( no deadline yet)

REVIEW THIS: Composition Checklist

So here is the checklist of things to look for in your composition as a starting point.

1. Is the horizon straight?
2. Is the subject strong and obvious within the image?
3. Are the edges of the frame clean? Is anything poking into the frame that distract the viewer? Are there elements of the image that lead the eye out of the frame that could be positioned better?
4. Is the background clean – are there distracting elements like a car parked in the background, or a fence or a house that doesn’t fit? Can you move or change the angle to remove that element?
5. Is the foreground tidy? Are you shooting a landscape or natural scene where there might be branches or leaves or twigs in the foreground that could be tidied away?
6. The position of people in the shot. Do they have a lamp post or a tree growing out of the top of their head? Have you chopped heads, feet, arms, or legs off?
7. Eye contact – when shooting a group of people, do we have eye contact with all your subjects?
8. Camera position – are you at the right height/angle for the best composition?
9. Point of focus – when taking photos of people/creatures/animals have you focused on the eye? Do you have a catchlight in the eye?
10. Is the Rule of Thirds being used effectively?
11. Do you have a sense of scale – particularly valid for large landscape scenes?
12. How does the eye travel around the image? Where does it go first? Where does it end up? Is that the story you want to tell the viewer?
13. Less is more – what truly needs to be in the frame? What can you leave out?
14. Is it sharp? Do you want it to be?