Digital+Camera+Skills+Taking+Pictures

Straight Photography Assignments
1. __**Still Life**__ - An image mainly composed of inanimate objects which may include flowers, people or animals. 2. **Landscape** - A picture of land, for example, the countryside, a mountain or a field. 3. **Portrait** - A picture of a person or animal. 4. **Nature Study** - A picture of plants, animals, sky, weather or natural phenomena. 5. **Reflections** - Pictures of glass, mirrors or other surfaces that show reflections. 6. **Fragments** - Pictures that only show part of an object, not the whole thing. 7. **Abstraction** - Photographs which represent reality mainly as patterns and/or shapes and not as recognizable objects. 8. **Pattern** - The repetition of lines or forms in an arranged sequence. 9. **Texture** - The surface characteristics of an object such as: smooth or rough, soft or hard or, shiny or dull. 10. **Light and Shadow** - Light makes it possible for us to see. Shadows are areas of darkness caused by objects that do not let light pass through. Cast shadows may also make an object look more threedimensional. 11. **Low Point of View** - The Point of View is the position from which you are looking at something. Often photographers can get a dramatic effect by taking a picture of something from a low point of view, an ant's eye view. 12. **Atypical Point of View -** When pictures are taken from an unusual angle or point of view the effect can be very dramatic. A picture of a boring object from an atypical point of view may make for an interesting photograph. 13. **Light** - Light is reflected through glass blocks or off of shiny objects. Rays of sunshine are rays of light as are rays coming from a light fixture. 14. **Leading Lines** - These are lines in a picture that lead the viewers eyes into a picture or to an object in a picture. Think of a picture of train tracks going into the distance. The rails of the tracks are leading lines.
 * Select objects at school or bring in things from home. Arrange the objects in an interesting way.
 * Take pictures of objects that someone else has arranged, for example, the objects on a teacher's desk or in a classroom.
 * Take pictures of the area surrounding the school.
 * Take pictures of your friends, teachers or others.
 * Take pictures of plants, animals or insects in the Courtyard or around the school.
 * Take pictures of windows, mirrors or other surfaces around school that show reflections.
 * Take pictures of parts of an object, a detail.
 * Take pictures of lines, shapes or unrecognizable three dimensional forms.
 * Take pictures of patterns in and around the school.
 * Take pictures that emphasize the texture of an object or objects.
 * Take pictures that emphasize the shadows cast on or cast by an object.
 * Take pictures from a low point of view. Notice how this changes the appearance of the size of things in your images.
 * Take pictures looking at things from unusual points of view.
 * Take pictures of light being reflected off of something or light projecting from a light source like a light bulb.
 * Find leading lines in the school and photograph them. Be sure to think of the composition of your photograph.