Sallman-Willis

1. Focus is important because, the way you focus the camera can enhance the object or person you are photographing, by making it stand out from it's surroundings. If you use soft focus, you can blend your object into the blurred background. To get good focus on a digital slr photograph you can set the auto focus, or use the focus points that you see when you look through the camera. 2. Depth of field is the distance in front of and behind the subject that is in focus. It is important to understand depth of field because, when you photograph a subject you must decide what you want your depth of field to be. If you want just one part to be in focus, use a reduced depth to blur out the rest of the photo. If you want the whole photo in focus use as much depth as you can. 3. The exposure triangle is three settings that you want to set based on where and what you're photographing. It is important to make quality photos because, it makes photos more defined, lighting can be changed due to shutter speeds and aperture creates the size of the photo. 4. The 5 compsitional techniques used in photography are the rule of thirds, framing, level horizon, focus and depth of field. Other compositional techniques that can be used include interesting points of views, leading lines and filling the frame. 5. Lighting techniques that come from natural sources include the sun, filtered sunlight, moonlight and firelight. Artificial lighting includes a camera flash, studio light, lights in a room and bounce light. Artificial light can be used when in a dimly lit room or a studio. Natural light would be used when outside or near a window that is letting light in. 6.In terms of lighting we have experience with both artificial and natural light. For natural lighting, we've have shot in sunlight and firelight. With artificial light we've shot with bounce light and flash.