Class Exercise D - Photo Series

Making photo compositons
– Use your mobile phone, choose a subject and compose it in various shot sizes and camera angles
– State the purposes of using these techniques and how does it affect your audience who perceive your subject.

Left:

• Simple Close-Up. Top-down angle. Bring focus to snail, or more precisely, to the design of the shell. It is complemented by the sharp contour line of the shell brought to the foregound under the lighting effects.

Right:

• Long Shot to give more details on the environment the snail is in.
• Large porportion of the picture taken up by the mosses at the foreground. Coupled with brighter light on the foreground, attention first goes to the mosses before it leads the audience's eyes up to the snail.
• The spread of mosses in the picture suggests a large span of mosses that the snail is in.
• The shot is meant to make the snail appear small and lost amidst the large span of mosses.

• Long shot. Positioned the snail at the left with a large deal of distance in front of it. The shot reinforces the slowness of the snail, appearing only at the "start of the journey".
• Tried the desaturated--> masking effect which I learnt in Chris's tutorial today :) Only the snail in the picture is unsaturated, bringing focus to the snail.

Top-down shot. Makes the snail appear vulnerable and small.
The shot taken against the wall, coupled with the shadow, gives a sense of the snail being cornered. Intend to suggest the entrapment of the snail.