Rules for Photographers to Remember
When taking photos, you can have a wide, mid, or close up shot. This is a mid shot. You can see most of the subject’s body but there is more detail shown than if it was a wide shot. This picture was also shot at eye level which is generally the angle at which you want to take a picture. I took this picture of a Maasai boy while in Kenya. This was taken during a goat roast in a small community during the summer of 2011.
This picture follows the rule of thirds. To follow the rule of thirds you divide a photo into 9 boxes and place the center of interest of the picture where the lines meet. These are called golden points. It is also a close-up shot of my friend Bailey. A close-up shot means that a certain point of the subject takes up the whole frame. It is not a picture of her whole body, but just of her face. This picture has a shorter depth of field, meaning that the background is not in focus, just the main subject of the picture. This picture was also shot at eye level. I took this picture of my friend Bailey last summer.
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