intro photog feb03
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Keep Your Camera Ready
You never know when something’s going to happen. Get the habit of having your camera with you.
Keep It Simple: Get Close
You waste film and distract the viewer when you are farther from your subject than you need to be.
Moving in focuses the viewer’s vision
Getting close involves the viewer with your subject
Distracting Surroundings
Are simplified by Getting Close
Keep People Busy
Avoid Static, Posed Group Photos
Show PeopleDoing Something
People in action are more interesting.
We not only see them, we see them interacting and we begin to get a story.
Show People Doing Something!
Watch for interaction between people: eye contact
Keep the Background Simple: Look At Edges
Frame foreground elements with background elements
Simplify the Background by throwing it out of focus
Look for an Unusual Point of View that helps tell the story
Consider Getting Above the Situation
Look for “Frames”
Include foreground objects as a frame
Composition: The Rule of thirds
Rule of Thirds
Don’t always use Horizontal Framing
Turn Your Camera to get a Vertical Frame
Practice Your Timing
Timing:Can you see everyone’s face?
Strong sunlight creates too much contrast
State the purpose of the discussion Identify yourself
Use your flash to lighten foreground
The interview itself is part of history.
Whose story is it?
In the Heritage Project, the documentarianis part of the story.