Point-of-View, Composition, 100
assignment 3
The position, direction and height of the camera define the point of view of a picture. You can change the way your subject is perceived by changing the camera position. If you are photographing something that you want to seem very tall, arrange the shot so that the camera is looking upwards.
This is done routinely in movies to make an actor look taller or shorter than they actually are. John Wayne, for example, was almost always filmed with the camera looking slightly up at him. He wasn't a small man, but by filming him this way he looked bigger than life. The mood and effectiveness of a picture can be very much altered by what is in the background. The mood of the picture of the piper with the girls in the background is much less solemn than low point of view that isolates him and makes a much more solemn picture.
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Assignment:
- Select a subject, an object, or landscape and take at least 10 different photographs of it, making sure to vary your compositions, so that not all the images are alike.
- Select 10 of the best images from your shoot to upload to your Google pictures. Be sure to make your folder viewable by those in the NORTH THURSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS so I can see it!
- In Google Groups, please click <reply> to the assignment and cut and paste the URL (web address) so the class can comment.
- In your Google pictures add a caption with your <First Initial> <Last Name>, name of photo, and assignment # or series (e.g. KReece, Waiting, ROT2) Be sure it is a new photograph taken for this class. NEVER use a photo you have taken before class started or a photo you have taken off the Internet.
- Finally, select the image you feel is the strongest and explain why in a sentence in your caption description.
