Photograph y Exercises Photography Exercises Before we start

Photograph y Exercises

Photography Exercises Before we start, think of the four F’s: 1. Frame: choose carefully what to include in your photo 2. Focus: be sure to understand how to focus 3. Follow through: allow your camera time to take the picture 4. Flash/ Light: think about where the light is coming from

Photography Exercises And, remember the three ways to convey your message visually 1. Photographing reality: • What is happening NOW 2. Photographing symbols: • Show an idea, concept or a theme 3. Posing the scene: • Photographing an arranged scene

Photography Exercises Exercise 1: Flash & light (30 minutes) Work in groups of two: • Find a dark room or space and place your colleague in the darkest corner. – Take a portrait of him/her on mode: (That is one with/one without flash) • Change roles and repeat exercise. Pick a different spot.

Photography Exercises • Now place your colleague in the light coming from the window (that is: the light is coming from your back) and take a picture • Change positions and do it again

Photography Exercises Feedback • Facilitator collects pictures and gives feedback on some of the results • Look at your results: what can you say about the difference between the pictures taken ‘in the dark’, with a flash and with natural light coming from the window. • Which do you prefer?

Photography Exercises Exercise 2: Composition (30 minutes) Work in groups of two: • Take four different pictures of the same subject (your working partner or maybe a chair or a car or a table). – Change the angle or position so that you play with different ways of photographing something or someone. • Change roles and repeat exercise. Pick a different spot.

Photography Exercises Feedback • Facilitator collects pictures and gives feedback to some of the results • Look at the results: what can you say about the different corners, focus and composition? • What do you prefer?

Photography Exercises Exercise 3: Focus (30 minutes) Work in groups of two: - Position your working partner from the waist up on the one side of your frame. Make sure there is another subject in the background of your frame (this can be a tree, a car, a person etc. ) Now take one picture with your working partner in focus. And another picture with the other subject in focus. Change roles and repeat the exercise.

Photography Exercises Feedback • Facilitator collects pictures and gives feedback to some of the results • Look at the results: what can you say about the different corners, focus and composition? • What do you prefer?

Photography Exercises Exercise 4: Visualising a VIP… (75 minutes) • Work in groups (3 or 4): - - The facilitator hands out the name of a well known person to each group. Or the group can come up with a VIP themselves. Don’t tell the other groups. Make a list of the characteristics of the VIP

Photography Exercises - - As a group you choose five characteristics that best represent the VIP As a group you are going to take photos that represent these characteristics. From all the pictures your group took, you choose five. Without saying who the characteristics represent, one group presents their pictures to the rest of the participants. The other groups try to guess who the VIP is!

Photography Exercises Exercise 5: Photographing concepts (75 minutes) Work in groups of three or four: - Each group receives a concept. The group cannot show it to others Each group has a few minutes to think how they can visualise their concept Take up to eight photos that show the concept Remember the three ways of conveying your message.

Photography Exercises - When photographing: try to make use of your surroundings as much as possible - From these 8 photos, you will have to select your three best ones together with the facilitator. - As a group you then discuss which photos together show the concept best. - Each group presents their pictures to the rest of the participants. The rest try to guess what concept is shown.