Ruffin-Theo

Ruffin Theo

What is important about focus? How do you get good focus in a digital slr photograph? Somethings that are important about focus is that, it can be used to make something a little more interesting, you can keep only your foreground in focus, giving more emphasis on something in your image. Something you might want to do is stay at least an arms lengths away from what your taking a photo of, and sometime you might want to use manual focus on somethings (it might come out better) rather than using Auto focus.

Explain in your own words what depth of field is and why it's important to understand when shooting photos. Depth of field is when you would be taking a photo of something in a different view. Weather you take a picture of something for a birds eye view or blur out the background or even the foreground. It is important to understand things like this, because this is some that is going to help you make your photos ( largely) interesting, helping you get the viewers attention better.

What is the exposure triangle and why is it important to making quality photos? The Exposure Triangle is how much light you might be letting into your photo (The triangle consists of ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture). It is important because knowing how all three of these things works will only help you make better photos. Like letting to much light in might drown out the image, along with not letting enough light in, you might not get the result you were looking for. That connects with ISO because if the sensitivity is to high you can also drown out your photo along with the same affects if you don't get enough light at times. Aperture is also connecting to the amount of light because this is how much the lens opens, again all depending on what is let in, is how it will affect you photo.

What are the 5 compositional techniques we use in photography? Rule of Thirds, Framing, Fill the Frame, Level horizon, Leading Lines

Which lighting techniques come from natural sources and which come from artificial? When would you use one vs another? Natural: Moonlight, sunlight, Filtered Sunlight, Fire Light, Light through Glass Artificial: Flashes off camera, Studio Lights, Lights in the room (lamps), Computer Light, Bounce Light, Fill Light, Dramatic Light When someone is taking a school photo or something like that you would have to you something like Fill Light, because you just want them to look lighter and everything around them. where if we used camera flash or natural sunlight we might get a lot of dark spaces and shadows around our subject.

In terms of lighting what kinds of light sources do you already have experience shooting photos with? Explain. Moonlight - I used lighting like this for a photo that I wanted to look a little dramatic  Sunlight - I used lighting like this for the same thing as moon but for something more warm.  Light through Glass - I only used photos like this for silly photos with my friends and what not, I also used Lights in room (lamps) for photos like this.  Flash - I used this when I would have like for the subject in my photo to stand out a little more than some of the things in the background since other things would be darkened out, but I would also use this if I just wanted to give my picture a little more of a shadow.