Shot types

On our second day of photography we had to do different shot types like close up, wide shot, long shot and more. Me, Tom and Aaron decided to go up to Werneth Lowe because we wanted different pictures to everyone else. We did this to practise the manual focus and practising different shots.

 This is a wide shot from the top of Werneth Lowe, wide shots are good to show a wide view and a collaboration of different subjects within in the image, it is a good to show a large view of somewhere, wide shots are used more to show a lot in a picture rather than focusing on one point. I used the landscape setting for this

 This is a close up of a flower, close ups are good because it shows one subject in focus but also shows a bit of the background so you can see the setting of where the flower or subject is. I used the macro setting to take this picture

This is a midshot of a rock splashing a puddle, midshots are used to show the subject from a bit of distance but not too far so you cant see what the focus is, you can also see all the background and its all in focus to show the surroundings of the subject. It is also to show an action like the ripples

This is a mid close up of a wooden pole, mid close ups are good because you can see detail on a subject but it isnt the entire picture you can see a good amount of background so you can see its surroundings.

This is a point of view shot of my friend Tom looking out at a nice view at the top of Werneth Lowe, point of view shots are good because they show what someone is looking at from a different angle and you can see what they see.

This is an extreme close up of a pink flower, extreme close ups are good because you can see the subject in full detail and none of the background so it gives you a really clear and detailed picture of the subject.

Day 1 of photography

In our first day of photography we got told to see what we could already do with our camera and see the pictures we could take, we got given half an hour to see the pictures we could take, we did this in pairs so it was quite hard getting some pictures because your pair was using the camera and then the opportunity had gone.

These are just a few pictures that I took during the first day, these are my favourite ones that I took.

 This one was on the normal setting of me trying to get the sun shining through the leaves in trees as I was walking up the road to see what it would look like, it was on auto focus because we were just learning how to use the cameras.

 This one is of some moss on a wall, i used auto focus and the macro setting for this one because it is a close up of the moss on the wall, I like this one because the foreground and background is blurred out and the bit further down the wall is in focus

 This is another macro shot on auto focus of a cobweb in the corner, this particular shot was hard to do because it was quite high up and I had to use the viewfinder to take the picture so I think it came out well but could of been better.

 This one is of a train setting off, I decided to do it slanted because diagonal pictures look cool and i thought it would give a nice effect of it as it drives away, this is also with auto focus just on a normal programmed setting.

 This is another macro shot of a dandelion through some growing leaves, this one looks cool because you can clearly see what the focus is on through the grass and the foreground and background are out of focus so your eyes are instantly drawn to the dandelion.

This one is a landscape shot of a church over the top of some trees and you can see the over head lines for a train but because of where the lines are it looks like it is cutting down the image using the lines to show that the focus is the church between the lines and trees

Rule of Thirds

The Rule of Thirds

Our brain likes to see things in 3's so when doing photography we try to make an image either have three subjects either long or wide, this makes the picture more appealing to the human eye.

 In this one in the bottom third there is a hill and field which is the 1st subject, then in the second third there is a city in the horizon which is then the 2nd subject and finally the sky is in the top third which gives it 3 subjects and makes it more appealing for our eyes.

This one is similar to the first but instead of the field in the bottom it is a large compass telling you where close attractions are, the second subject is more of a wooded area than a town/city and the 3rd subject has hills as well as the sky in it but is a similar sort of shot

This one is completely different to the the other two because this isn't a landscape shot, this is a close up of a flower the rule of thirds in this one is vertical because it has the subject of a leaf in the one in the third on the left then the flower in the middle section then grass and a wall in the one on the right.

This one has a bit of rule of thirds of both because it has the fence in the bottom third then the path and city in the second third then got the sky in the top third but i was more focused on it being vertical because it has the grass in the one on the left then the path in the middle and the hedge on the right.

In conclusion rule of thirds is hard to get perfect but when it is done it makes the pictures look a lot better and they are better to look at because our eyes like seeing things in threes.