Week 5

Week 5:
September 29th, 2010

Emotion can be conveyed by gesture, facial expression and body language. These elements are essential to communicate how a person feels. They offer clues to their personality.

Remember to specifically discuss elements that are good or could be improved. Don't be vague and general!

Don't pose the person for this type of candid assignment. Try and get them doing things they would do without you there.

Don't harass people on the street for photos. Start a conversation, be friendly, let them know what you are doing.

Remember to find the best vantage point. Watch for things running off the frame and disappearing. Get your vantage point, set-up then WAIT for the moment to happen.

The canvas around the image can affect how the image looks and what parts stand out.

Many images can come from one vantage point. It's about waiting for the moment to happen, then capturing it.

You can make something pop by mkaing the background of the photo out of focus.

Focal length, aperture and subject distance are the three tings that affect depth of field.

Thoughts:
There was some interesting discussion about capturing emotion. This will help me when doing future assignments that require emotion from people. It will also help me when I do my photo story. It is very interesting to see how much emotions can be capture din a phorograph, but it's even more inetretsing to see how much the photographer has an effect on the way emotion shows though.