Practicing Photography

Today we learned about the processes involved in a professional photo shoot for a magazine or greetings card. For example, they start with an idea, then need to meet to discuss it before researching locations, props and hire/purchase of lighting and camera equipment. We had to draw a diagram to demonstrate this.

Next we learned about different photography framing techniques. The first one was the rule of thirds where you divide the frame into three sections horizontally and three vertically. Where the lines cross is where you should try to put the item you want people to focus on. Here are

some examples:

As you can see, both the flowers in these pictures are roughly at the point where the lines would meet.

We also learned about creating a frame within a frame to draw the eye towards something in a photo. Here are some examples:

We then went into the studio to experiment with different artificial lighting techniques:

We used standard bright studio lighting, red heads with coloured gels over the top of them in blue, green and pink and small fairy lights. With different lights you can create a different atmosphere, whether soft and glowing or dramatic
and shadowy.