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A Leading Line is....

A leading line is when you have a side walk, fence, hedge, river, or shadow and you take a picture along it or jus behind it. You have to choose the right angle to make a leading line. When you take a picture you want to have the line starting in the corner.

Lighting

Light is the key component to a good photo. Without light there is no picture. There are four kinds of lighting that effect photography. The four kinds of light are:

1) Front light
2) Side light
3) Back light
4) Flat light

Front Light


Front light is the most commonly used lighting. Front lighting falls directly on the subject. It sometimes makes people squint because they look right into the light.



Side Light


Side light is when the light falls on the side of the subject. Side light usually makes shadows on half of the subject. Landscape photos are nicer when the sun is lower in the sky. 10:00- 3:00 on sunny days is the worst time to take outdoor photos.



Back Light



Back light is when the light is behind or above the subject. You do not get much detail in the subject. With back light you will get a silhouette or halo effect.

Fill The Frame

Fill The Frame

The pictures below show that pictures get more effect if they are closer, or farther away.

Don't be shy! Get up close!

By: David, Ryan, Nick, and Brenden

Point of View

Submitted by Daniela, Priya and Alisha.

All pictures do not have to be taken from eye level or straight on. If you take a picture from a different angle you can have a different feeling or mood in your picture. The worm’s eye view can be very interesting. When you lie on your stomach, on the ground, you can take an interesting picture from a different point of view. If you are taking pictures of smaller subjects, it would help by getting down to their level. Taking pictures from a higher level offers another point of view. People look up at the camera so different things can be used for the background. Having people pose in a natural manner, allows them to look more relaxed and comfortable. Simple props help to fill the frame.

Framing

Framing is a trick that will make pictures more professional. It will frame the subject and makes the picture a 3-dimensional look by using objects. Framing is mostly effective on cloudy days like when the sky is white or gray. For example, position the subject so that the object is covering the most of the space so it will result in a interesting point of view. Remember, the subject should be framed in a professional look.

Jin, Sean, Philip

Rules of Thirds

Rules of Thirds

The main subject should be on either towards the left or the right. It should not be placed in the center. It should appear like they are moving towards the middle. The horizon line should be placed on one of the horizon lines. If you take a picture of a human, take a picture of the whole person or shoot from the waist up.

By: Alice, Allie, Lorisa

Good Job!

Hi Guys,
Great job getting the Movie Maker reviews done! I am impressed. Have fun in class today . . . and be good! :)

movie maker

movie maker was ok, but we had to upload our videos and save our videos at least 4 times and it got REALLY annoying after awhile. and then when we were going to work on the video again we discovered that the videos we hadn't uploaded or saved, were deleted from the cameras!! so some scenes aren't in the whole production.

alex trebek

it's really fun making the movie in movie maker but sometime it delete everything and thats the bad part about it. But except that it's really fun.

posted by: shamim

Movie Maker

We think that it was easy to use, but it wasn't very good at letting you customize the project. Other than that, it was a very good program to use when you're making a movie.

morgan and lauren

Windows Movie Maker - Emma & Liz

We think that Windows Movie Maker was okay, but it wasn't very advanced for the technology that is available today. There wasn't very many special effects that you could add to your movie either. We thought that it was pretty basic and straight forward. A great way to start learning about editing movies. Overall we would give Windows Movie Maker six out of ten.

Liz and Emma

Windows Movie Maker Review - Mark and Tom

We found that Windows Movie Maker was pretty hard to use and didn't recognize pretty much any kind of file. I would like to use iTunes next time because Windows Movie Maker really doesnt work very well. It worked okay for editing but didnt let us open our movie later on.

Windows Movie Maker Review - Mark and Tom

We found that Windows Movie Maker was pretty hard to use and didn't recognize pretty much any kind of file. I would like to use iTunes next time because Windows Movie Maker really doesnt work very well. It worked okay for editing but didnt let us open our movie later on.

Movie Maker

A good thing about the program is that it is easy to learn how to use. Other then that we really didn't like the program because it was really slow, always freezing, deleted are pictures, the sound kept on messing up and it made us very frustrated at time because of these difficulties.

Love: Laura Hayley Amanda<3

Movie Maker

We found that windows movie maker was not very user friendly and it didnt work well. I didnt think it had enough features and it was hard to figure it all out. You had to save everything on the computer, or else it would all dissapear and the pictures would turn to x's it was very frustrating. All in all it was another hard to use, complicated and just plain annoying programme from the Microsoft Corporation (which we are all used to).

Daniel, Alex, and Danyal

Window's Movie Maker

We thought that Window's Movie Maker was helpful and had lots of variety. Unfortunately, it kept on freezing on us so we had to restart from where we last saved. Also, if you forgot to save the pictures onto the computer before you started, the next time you opened the file, you would have to restart because the computer would not be able to find the pictures.

Randell and Andrew

leading lines

A leading line can be almost anything: a road, path, sidewalk, fence, river, hedge, tree line or shadow. You will not find a strong leading line around every subject, but you should look for them.in the camera the'll be no lines but you should use imaginary lines . Remember: Watch for strong lines that lead to our subject.

posted by shamim

Leading Lines

A leading line is any line that leads into the picture. It is used to direct your eye to the main subject of the photograph.
A leading line can be a road, river, hedge, sidewalk, fence, even a painted line on a wall. By Lauren and Liz.

Leading Lines

Leading lines are lines that lead to the subject of the photo. For leading lines, you can use sidewalks, lines, paths, hedges, etc. There aren't always lines where you are taking your picture, so take advantage of them when you have them. The lines should never lead out of the photo. Make sure you have the right angle or point of view so that the lines lead in to the center of the photo.

~by Jenny, Brittany and Anne-Marie

Keeping the Horizon Level

When you are taking a picture of a horizon, you want to keep the picture level. It may look okay when you take the picture, but later you will notice. It’s a good idea to keep the horizon on one of the three lines of the rule of thirds. It depends on the picture to decide what line to put it on. If you're taking a picture of a strong sunrise, then you would want to put the horizon on the bottom invisible line. If you have a picture of someone sitting with the sunrise behind them, then you would want to put the horizon on the top invisible line. It all depends on what kind of picture you are taking. By:Morgan & Emma

Point of View

Different points of view can create different effects when taking a picture. For example... you can stand on top of something to capture a birds eye view or you can lay down to take the picture from a bugs eye view. Remember, you don't always have to take the picture from straight on! Posted by: Hayley, Amanda and Laura

The rule of thirds

The rule of thirds states that the object of interest should be placed in one of the intersections of the imaginary lines. The imaginary lines are placed horizontally in thirds and vertically in thirds. This draws attention to the subject of the photo while still showing backround.

Framing a picture

To frame your picture, you use closer objects like vegetation to give your picture a more 3D, professional look. Make sure that the closer object is not considered as the main object of the picture. Posted by Andrew and Randell

Fill the Frame

Fill the Frame is to get as close as you can to the object in your picture. Make sure the background is simple, because otherwise it will distract people from the main subject of your picture. Posted by Tom and Mark