corica-kailee

=**Focus:**=

What is important about focus? How do you get good focus in a digital slr photograph?
Focus can enhance a subject by making it stand out drastically or blend in with its surroundings. Focus can help the viewer understand the emotion in a picture and can draw them into a certain section; maybe to signify importance. To get good focus in a slr photograph, you need to know how to work your manual focus option if you are using that rather than auto focus. You need to turn the focus ring until your subject sharpens to your liking. Then, fine-tune the focus until the subject is crystal clear.

 Explain in your own words what depth of field is and why it's important to understand when shooting photos.
To me, depth of field is the range of distance there is in your photo. It's the distance from your closest object to the farthest object with the focus choosing one of the two to focus in on. This is important to understand when shooting photos because you don't want your photos to be crowded or busy with everything standing out. It's better to have an object or two be the main focus, that way your concept can be clearer.

==  What is the exposure triangle and why is it important to making quality photos? (HINT...there are 3 parts to the Triangle make sure you explain all three and how they relate to each other and making a good photo.) ==

The exposure triangle is a common way of associating three valuable parts to the exposure of a photograph; shutter speed, aperture and ISO. It's important to making quality because the shutter speed determines how long the sensor is exposed to light. Less light would mean a darker photo and more light a brighter photo. The aperture allows for the lens to open big or small, affecting the amount of light to reach the center. The ISO measures the sensor's sensitivity to light.

==  What are the 5 compositional techniques we use in photography? EXPLAIN don't just list. ==


 * 1) Rule of thirds- Aligning the subject with the guide lines and their intersection points. This means you divide the frame into 9 different sections and place the subject on one of the 4 intersection points.
 * 2) Framing- This is the placement of the subject and what's surrounding it. This can apply to natural borders like trees, or buildings in the background.
 * 3) Fill the frame- When you let the subject fill the entire frame. This is typically a zoom up on something to reveal more detail in the subject.
 * 4) Level horizon- when the horizon is straight across the frame. This does not include diagonal lines across the image because this can confuse the viewer of what they're looking at.
 * 5) Leading lines- the viewer's eye is attracted to the lines that lead directly to the principle subject in the image.

==  Which lighting techniques come from natural sources and which come from artificial? When would you use one vs another? ==

Lighting that comes from natural sources includes moonlight, sunlight, firelight, or filtered sun that shines through on a cloudy day. Lighting that comes from artificial sources include flash from a camera, fluorescent lights, spot lights, or regular lights in a room. I would rather use natural lighting sources because I feel it flatters the subject more whether it's a person or object. Better shadows are casted and the picture doesn't seem so harsh like it would with artificial lighting.

==  In terms of lighting what kinds of light sources do you already have experience shooting photos with? Explain. == Since the beginning of the semester, I have experienced shooting with sunlight, sunlight through clouds, and various artificial lighting. For the first two photo shoots, we went outside while it was a gloomy day and there wasn't much sunlight shining through the clouds. I noticed it didn't create many shadows on anything. When working in the prairie, the sun was out and it created interesting shadows on the trees. In our mini class photo shoot, we worked with florescent lighting and tested the different ways we could capture a photo. The lights were on all the way and we had the option to add more light and turn the flash on on our cameras.