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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Practical lesson using FUJI FINEPIX S900 Digital Camera

On our Practical lesson with digital camera we had some time to go around school and take some pictures. we had to take a close up (C.U) a mid shot (M.S) and long shot (L.S). I worked in a pair with Will.




First of all we took a close up.As you can see from the picture on the left we did a C.U of a shoe. Most important thing about C.U is focus. you need to make sure that the camera is perfectly focused on the object that you are taking a shot of.


Second we did a Mid shot (M.U). Mid shot is from waist up to your head. So a good example of this is the picture below.

Checking wide balance is also very important in order to make a correct mid Shot. In addition to all these light exposure had to be checked constantly so the right amount of light was focused on the main subject.



The last task we had is to do a Long Shot (L.S). Long shot means that you take a shot of the whole person. For example as you can see from the picture on the right the photo should b taken from head to toes. Before taking the shot you need to make sure that you zoom in then you focus on the person and later on you zoom out in order to take the picture. It is important that you have head space.If you don't have any head space then your picture will look quite stupid as it will look like your photo had been cut, or it could mean that you don't really know how to use the camera properly.
Looking space.
Looking space is important because when you see how the person on the picture is looking and were they are looking this gives you an idea of the photo or tells you abit about the theme.
Rule of Third.
If you think of your picture as a square and imagine if it is cut into 9 equal squares. The middle square is the HOT POINT.What i mean by this is you base your shot on the main subject which might be a person or any other object so this (hot point) gives you as clue were to look and Whit to focus on. So you immediately focus your attention around the point.

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