Help on a speech about photography...
March 11th, 2010 by , under nnmj.com.
I recently gave a speech on portrait photography for a college class. I broke it out into several sections, composition (rule of thirds, etc), lighting (natural, flash), candid/photojournalistic approach, and a brief talk about digital vs film and suggested items to get started. If you can use visual aids do so. I've used powerpoint to show photos that illustrate my points (i.e. photo with direct flash vs bounced). Good luck!
Something like that, just to give my class the basic information of how to take good pictures and what makes a good picture. For your speech, skiboarder72, which specific 5 did you choose, and thanks for the note about checking out the kodak site!
Anyone who has any imput/suggestions that relate more in this general direction for simple and basic photography styles and techniques, please keep replying, all help is greatly appreciated!
I. One way you can help take better pictures is to use a simple background.
A. When shooting people the background can take away from the subject of your picture.
B. Get around this by moving the subject or repositioning yourself around the subject.
C. If it isn抰 possible try and fill the screen with as much of the subject as you can.
II. Kodak抯 website has a great article about taking better pictures. According to them another important thing to remember when taking pictures is where the lighting is coming from.
A. Shooting out in bright light can be very dangerous.
1. Make sure you use the flash.
2. Make sure the background is not reflective or very bright.
3. Try and put the light at an angle to the subject.
B. Indoors you usually want to use a flash
1. Turn on lots of lights if you can to get a more natural skin color.
2. Use a plain background that isn抰 bright or reflective.
3. Be careful of the flash抯 range (3-14 ft).
III. Thirdly, according to Julie King, writer of Digital Photography for Dummies, when taking pictures you should divide up the screen into thirds.
A. Imagine there is a tic-tac-toe board drawn over your picture.
B. This also allows for some more unique looking shots to be taken.
1. Place subject near bottom is you want to show more of the area around the subject.
2. Place the subject near the top if you want to emphasize the size and things in front of the subject.
C. Centered pictures look boring.
IV. Next, when you take pictures, remember that when you want to have the camera positioned vertical for taller things.
A. Cameras can take pictures vertically or horizontally. (Doesn抰 harm the camera)
B. Taller subjects like people and buildings generally look better in a vertical position.
C. Horizons, groups of people, and pictures of hot dogs you can leave the camera in the normal position.
V. Finally, probably the most important thing to remember when taking pictures is fill the picture with your subject.
A. Move in close to your subject (they won抰 bite).
B. This brings out more detail in your pictures and minimizes the problem with complicated backgrounds.
C. Don抰 get too close, most cameras can抰 focus well until they are 3 feet away from the subject.
but dont be like most boring people...and keep your voice the same monotone way, vary it...SOUND INTERESTED, sound surprised, SAY JOkes you dont know how much ill listen when I hear a joke or two.
Make sure you dont keep it all just you speaking, if you get my point...visual aids in other words, like Alison mentiond, really helps.
I would also say dont stick with one subject, how to use an SLR is fine, but its too one sided...you wanna make it sound like a course theyve paid for...not ONLY will they learn how to use an SLRbut about different film types...and you will answer the age old question, FILM VS DIGITAL.
Hope this helps mate, and good luck.
P.s. listen to Alisons post, shes got good ideas! :D
Tell 'em about the all the glamore, wealth and power that photographers enjoy.
OR
Talk about one simple aspect. IE: How a SLR works, or how a digital camera captures an image, or how making photos is similar/dissimalar to another medium.
Good luck!
-Pete
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Oooooh! Much more exciting than mine was :thumbsup:
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