Review

Composition

  • Rule of Thirds
  • Leading Lines
  • Diagonals
  • Frame within a frame
  • Figure to ground
  • Fill the Frame
  • Patterns
  • Symmetry

Framing

  • A long shot or establishing shot
  • a medium shot
  • a close up
  • an extreme close up

Angle of view

  • Worm’s eye view
  • low angle
  • eye-level
  • high angle
  • bird’s eye or aerial view
  • oblique angle

Shutter Speed

  • Blur Motion
  • Freeze motion (including your own!)

Aperture

  • Extensive depth of field
  • Shallow depth of field

Light Quality

  • Direct – hard edged shadows
  • Diffused – soft edged shadows

Light Direction

  • Front
  • Side
  • Back

Portrait Lighting Styles

For a front view:

  • Rembrandt
  • Butterfly
  • Split

For three-quarter view

  • Broad
  • Short

Studio Portrait Light Roles

  • Main – this light creates the lighting style. it casts the shadows.
  • Fill – this light brightens the shadows
  • Background light – this light creates separation between the subject and the background.

Lab

Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Take beautiful photographs at the BBG to demonstrate everything we learned this semester. post your 20 best to an album on Flcikr and send your best two to the class group.

Homework

Final Project

All the World Photo Contest submission

4 pts. Due May 18th.

The entry consists of three portraits, each with a 100 word bio, and a photo release for each person. If you want my help editing the bio – hand it in by May 11th. Put your bio in a google doc and share it with me and I will use the editing feature to make “suggestions.”