Shot Types - Activity 1

When we went out to take photos we took different photographs with different shot types including  WS, MS, MCU, CU and ECU.  The reason for doing this is so that we can get more experienced with using a SLR camera.  These photos were taken on Werneth Lowe.








This landscape view of Werneth Lowe is a WS and a LS.  A WS for this photo is good because you can see a variety of the landscape and with it being a LS you can see far into the distance.

This shot looks like a MS because it is not all of the memorial it is just a segment if the picture had the whole memorial it would be more of a LS.  Even though i said it was a MS it is hard to tell because it is an object and not a person.

This photo is a portrait and it is MCU.  If he was facing the camera it would look similar to how close cameras are on news presenters.  In this photo I like how all of the background is blurred out and the focus is only on Aaron.

This shot is MS because that the camera isn't to close and it isn't to far and it is very visible to look at.  I like how that I captured a bit of grass at the tap and the stone at the top looks really detailed.
 











This shot is a ECU because it is set on just one feature on the face instead of seeing the whole face you just see the eye.

This shot I didn't have to do but I liked it.  This shot is a Over The Shoulder Shot.  You can see the landscape is the distance the only problem with it is that it is focused on a tree.

Photography Day 1

On the first day of photography I went down to the train station Newton to Hyde and took a couple of pictures.  I didn't take that many because I didn't know all of the settings and modes for the camera.  So really I was just testing out a few of the different modes that the camera had available.  

I had the camera on auto focus but I was trying to focus them myself which was difficult to do.

This picture of berries was used on the Macro (Close Up) setting.  It is used to focus mainly on one objects this object being the berries and it should focus everything else out.  You can see the the bottom of the berries is a bit out of focus.

This set of stairs was in darkness so I put the Night Portrait so that it would be a light seen after the picture was taken.

This photo of a dandelion, I used Macro (Close Up) again.  The focus is mainly on the dandelion and the background has properly blurred out like it should unlike the berries picture.  The only problem is the leaf coming across it.

This photo of Adam and Callum I used the setting Portrait.  The portrait setting brings out more off the skin tone and recognises faces.  If they were facing the camera if would of been a better photo.