Photography 101; Wednesday, Second Period [01/25].

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"Alright, everyone," said Prompto, once his students had arrived, clapping his hands together from where he'd been sitting on top of the desk at the front of the room, then hopped off to go get everything set up for their photo share. "By now, you should probably be able to guess how class today's going to go: let's have a look at how you did on your lighting assignment and maybe talk about it a little bit, before we get into today's topic, which is going to be different types of shots."

Short, simple, to the point, because the meat of the lesson was going to come in after they'd had a chance to look at some lighting pictures!

"Who's up first this week?"

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Listen to the Lecture: Types of Shots - Photography, 01/25.

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"Now," Prompto grinned, once the photo share was done, and it was time to move on to him sharing photos...of examples...of today's topic! "We've talked about framing, we've talked about lighting, now it's time to break it down into types of shots to keep in mind when you're trying to snag a great pic. In general, you've got three basic ones: close-up, medium, and long, and within those, you've also got your extreme close-up and extreme long shots. Those are generally going to refer to the distance at which the picture is being taken. And then you've got your angle to consider, and with that, we're going to go over five basic ones: high angle, low angle, over the shoulder, bird's eye, and the Dutch angle or tilt. For the most part, the names are pretty self-explanatory, but let's get into some examples and the details so you can really start getting an idea of what makes them different from each other."

And if there's one thing Prompto will always have plenty of, it's photographic examples! And he's put together basically a slide-show of pictures to show off the various different types of shots mentioned, and you know he's going to take the time to break down how the examples fit the type of shot, things to consider when taking a shot like that, and, on occasion, also referring back to previous lectures by pointing out when a picture is a good examples of Rule of Thirds and interesting lighting use as well.