Documentation

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Documentation

• Fundamentals of Photography (Photo Voice)

By Jon Corbett and Kasondra White
Unit M14U05
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Introduction

• Provides a visual representation of
• geographic features
• infrastructure
• land-use practices
• community
• Photo voice
• Training community members
• Creating photographs

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Photo voice

• Uses photography to represent the interests of
  community members who normally may not have a
  voice
• Empowers community members to be the
  photographers
• Benefits communities by
• providing an outlet for expressing local
  knowledge
• teaching community members a new skill set

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Creating photographs composition

• How to set up the subject in the frame
• Composition communicates meaning
• Placing subjects with intention and purpose
• Involves working with
• light
• camera angle
• lens

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Creating photographs The Rule of Thirds

• Imagine dividing an image into thirds
  horizontally and vertically
• Image is made up of nine squares
• Place points of interest
• in the intersections
• along the lines
• What are the points of interest?
• Where am I intentionally placing them?

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Content

• Conventions of composition
• Subjects should be facing the camera.
• Subjects should be filling the picture (objects
  should not be too far away).
• Subjects should be framed within the picture.

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Content headroom

• The space between the top of someones head and
  the top of the frame

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Content nose room

• The distance between the nose of the subject and
  the edge of the frame
• Used for close-up, profile shots
• Space in direction nose is pointing should be
  greater than space behind the head

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Types of shotsextreme close-up

• Shooting something very close up (e.g. a flower,
  someones eye)
• Can make objects seem unnatural
• Helps audience become intimate with subject

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Types of shots close-up

• Often used to capture a full face
• Used to make characters recognisable

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Types of shotsmedium close-up

• Very common shot
• Often of the head and shoulders
• Good for photographing an individual

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Types of shots medium shot

• Shows most of the body, which fills the frame
• Also good for photographing individuals

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Types of shots long shot

• Used often
• Used when there is more than one individual or
  subject that is the focus of attention

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Types of shotsextreme long shot

• Used mainly for panoramas
• Details are difficult to distinguish
• Good for shooting the natural environment

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Types of shotshigh-angle shots

• The camera is positioned above the subject,
  looking downward
• Can insinuate that the subject is small or
  inferior

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Types of shotslow-angle shots

• The camera is positioned below the subject,
  looking upwards
• Can confer respect or accentuate grandeur

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Types of shotseye-level shots

• The camera is positioned level with the subject
• Used to imply equanimity

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Working with light low lighting

• May seem light enough, when it is actually too
  dark for the camera
• Using a flash can create a glare
• To take a picture in low light
• put camera on a tripod
• keep it very still
• decrease shutter speed
• increase ISO settings

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Working with light bright light

• Very bright light, such as the sun, can cause the
  photo to look washed out
• Be aware of shadows, particularly outdoors on
  bright days