Soo my photography skills are not the greatest and i am still learning. Last year i i took my first course of photography (all black and white) and this i am taking my second course which is all digital with photoshop. Our first shoot is due monday and i have no clue on what pictures to take. Ofcourse there is a guideline we have to follow and etc but even with those i am still clueless.

I have to take a 2x photos each of the principles of design (balance, rhythm, repitition, movement, contrast, emphasis, unity)

I have no clue on what photos i can take sense its my first digital shoot and what would look nice. I am looking for helpful hints, tips and ideas please. Post what ever you feel could help me out please.


Thankyou!

Being its digital... Go out and just shoot... Anything you can think of seriously... The beauty of digital is you can just delete the photo at any time...

balance ~ same object on left and right sides of frame. like an two apples pushed to the edges of the photograph.

rhythm ~

repetition ~ should write for itself

movement ~ use a long shutter count at like 1/10s or even greater and roll and object from left and right to show an action shot

contrast ~ black and white shots make excellent for contrast.. just make sure the lighting is variable in the shot.. so place a flashlight at the object from where you shoot to make shadows

emphasis ~ make sure you have a really strong focal point.. perhaps think of a minimalistic picture

unity ~ http://www.bluemoonwebdesign.com/art-lessons-9.asp

I'd just try and capture anything that really strikes you as "interesting" and neat... something out of the ordinary, something different. And of course something that catches your eye, and makes your heart go "ahhhhhhhh" lol. That's what I do when I take pictures, well, try to

Every were I go I see pictures. I see symmetry and I see art.

I think you have to learn how to see pictures before you shoot them.

This post was edited by Qhotex on Feb 1 2009 03:24am

Balance- Some sort of still-life could work here.
Rhythm- Not too sure for this one.
Repetition- Strong patterns
Movement- Try a panning shot, use a long shutter and follow an object accross, it'll stay in focus but the background will be blurred. Or do the opposite.
Contrast- Think of contrasting elements more than colours, people standing out from the crowd, etc.
Emphasis- A portrait shot at a very low f-stop.
Unity- Not too sure for this one either.

If its possible for you to get like 400+ mm lens from the school go to a football game.

balance - someone tackling other player

rhythm - shoot at those drummers, if there are eny

repetion - go to end of the field and shoot the yard lines and try to make a pattern from them

Movement - i think you can figure this one out

Contrast - try to spot someone with contrast colorst to others, for example if there is someone with black shirt in the crowd with everyone in yellow. Or maybe if the different teams have colors like that

emphasis - shoot at the player who just scored for his monkeying

unity - shoot at the attacking team, just before they start the attack

If you got lot more time to do this than few hours, then i suggest you make the shots in different places instead for example all in some football game. If you got bit more time, but limited you could make one football and one set for something else. Or did the teacher tell you how you should do these pics?





Even if you got a digital camera that doesent mean you should just spray and pray for good photo with the camera. When taking a pic think it is a film camera and you need to get the shot good with the first shot, but check the pic after and shoot again and maybe again and again. That way you will learn the most, allso try to imagine the picture as much as possible even before you are in the spot where your gonna take the picture, that way you will learn to go to best spot to take the pic so you dont need to change the spot like 5 times to get a good shot or worse just going in some random place and just taking a shot without thinking enything. What comes to that you can just delete photos if you just shoot something that happens to be in viewfinder you should delete about all the photos, unless you get really lucky. One really good thing to learn is your focal lenght if using prime lenses, if using a zoom learn how the background changes with different focal lenghts, when your subject stays in the same size(by you moving back or forward to him while zooming), even tho you change the focal lenght.

Right on sister
But I guess sometimes things captured by camera could turn out differently than you saw with your own eyes
or in my case I could screw up the picture because of bad composition