Close up, Framing, Shadows & Reflections
OBJECTIVE:
Students will be required to shoot imagery illustrating a compositional understanding of Close Up, Framing and Reflections. Students will be expected to set up their scenes in a way that draws the viewer's attention to a particular area of interest within the frame of the composition that they have composed in the camera.
Students will be required to shoot imagery illustrating a compositional understanding of Close Up, Framing and Reflections. Students will be expected to set up their scenes in a way that draws the viewer's attention to a particular area of interest within the frame of the composition that they have composed in the camera.
VOCABULARY:
- Framing – a way of composing an image in which an element in the foreground of the picture seems to be enclosing all or part of the edges of the frame (this area is generally out-of-focus –utilizing a shallow depth of field) and the focal area within the image (usually in the background area) is totally in focus.
- Natural Framing – an image in which the edges of the frame are enclosed by elements that are found in nature.
- Man-Made Framing – an image in which the edges of the frame are enclosed by elements that are man-made.
- Close-Up – an image that has been “zoomed-in”. Close up images are naturally cropped by what you have chosen to included within the frame of the camera lens as well as by your position in relation to the subject.
- Reflection – an image that has been composed in which a reflection of the scene or a particular object is the focal point of the composition rather than the actual subject.
- Shadow – an image that has been composed in which a shadow of a particular object is the focal point of the composition rather than the actual subject.
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