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- 1. Starting to takephotos “Arts for life: developing life skills through the arts“ 2018-1-LV01- KA229 – 047004_1 Silutes r. Katyciu pagrindine mokykla
- 2. Subject Photography Grade 5- 10 Number of the pupils 34 Teacher Educational workshop at the “Smart School“ Topic Basic tips to take the photographs Objectives To introduce pupils to the main rules and principes of the art of photography. To develop practical skills of making photographs. To foster creativity and imagination.
- 3. Methods Workshop, individualwork Materials A professional camera. Short description 1. The pupils are acquainted with the main rules of taking the photographs. 2. Using the professional camera the pupils make composition and take the photographs of each other.
- 4. Photography is morethan an art. It's a skill. Professional photographers take time to study and learn their art, learning exactly what is required to take an eye-catching photo.
- 5. 10 Tips fora great picture • Look your subject in the eye • Use a plain background • Use flash outdoors • Move in close • Move it from the middle • Lock the focus • Know your flash’s range • Watch the light • Take some vertical pictures • Be a picture director
- 6. 7 Basic Elementsof Photography • Line – Can be vertical, horizontal, curved or jagged. Examples: roads, sunsets, bridges. • Shape – Two-dimensional representation of objects. Examples: silhouetted photographs of birds. • Form – Three-dimensional representation of objects, usually through the use of lighting and shadows. • Texture – The use of lighting to bring out details of an object, making it easy to see whether a surface is smooth or soft. • Pattern – The use of repetition to create an interesting photo. Examples: photos of gardens or flowers. • Color – Using warm or cool colors to set a mood. • Space – Either negative or positive space can be used to make a statement. Often seen when using the rule of thirds.
- 7. 5 Rules ofComposition • Composition is what guides our eyes through a photograph and gives importance to the subject in relation to the rest of the photo. • Composition through flow, direction, and visual balance, helps drive the story behind your image and grabs your viewer’s attention. • It is one of the most important components of photography, or any visual art for that matter, and can turn an ordinary scene to something special.
- 8. 1. The Ruleof Thirds • When starting out, it is natural to place your subject at the center of the frame. However, in a photograph having your subject placed dead center often leads to a boring composition. Doing so, makes our photographs look predictable. • The Rule of Thirds is one of the most popular compositional techniques. The Rule of Thirds divides your scene into a 3×3 grid with equal size rectangles. To follow this rule, compose your subject in one third of the frame or on the line. This creates a more dynamic and pleasing composition since it gives more emphasis to your subject and their environment. • Also be aware of the direction that your subject is looking or moving towards. Generally, it is better for them to look or move into the frame.
- 9. 1. The Ruleof Thirds • Also be aware of the direction that your subject is looking or moving towards. Generally, it is better for them to look or move into the frame. • The same holds true when you’re taking a landscape photo; it’s more interesting to put either the landscape or sky in two thirds of the frame to give it more importance. Placing the horizon in the middle of the frame makes for a uninteresting composition where neither the sky nor landscape is emphasized. • Using the Rule of Thirds provides balance to the photograph by using the two thirds section of the frame to compliment the one thirds section of the frame where the subject is placed.
- 10. 2. Leading Lines •Leading lines are diagonal lines that naturally exist in a scene which help the viewer’s eyes move from one direction to another. The lines are created from converging perspectives as seen through the camera. They should be framed in a way that draws the viewers eyes towards the primary subject as they can draw your eyes away from the subject when used improperly.
- 11. 3. Reduce Clutter •Clutter is pretty much anything in the photograph that takes your attention away from your primary subject. This can be anything from a Styrofoam cup, a busy tree branch, or any busy details on a focused background that doesn’t help enhance the scene. • This of course doesn’t mean that you can nor should you only shoot against a plain background. The first image of the couple in the bamboo forest works well because the repeating lines are relatively uniform in direction. Were they not, then it would lead to a busy and cluttered background. • Shallow depth of field is another great way to reduce clutter and give visual weight to your subject.
- 12. 4. Contrasting Colors •Another way to make your subject stand out is by using contrasting colors. Examples of this include vibrant vs muted colors, warm vs cool colors, and dark vs light colors. The last one, light and dark, is especially important because our eyes tend to move from darker colors towards lighter colors.
- 13. 5. Creative Framing •Framing your subjects is a great way to isolate your subject is to use framing. This can be done with either defocused foreground objects or solid color shape elements. Just make sure that what you are using to frame is not so overly busy that it fights for attention.
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