Photography techniques

Photography techniques

Photography techniques refers to various methods of taking pictures through the use of different camera functions, lighting, angles and exposure time.

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Selective focus

Photography; Photography techniques

Selective focus is the use of limited depth of field to focus sharply on a specific object in a scene, while other parts are clearly out-of-focus. Selective focus is an editing technique that can ...

In digital photography, a subordinate point is a point whose placement is determined secondarily to other visual elements. Nonetheless, subordinate points can be crucial to how well an image works. ...

form

Photography; Photography techniques

Forms, as well as shapes, are elements that take up a specific space in the frame in a particular way and both of them can create points in a photograph. In photography, form is the three-dimensional ...

Background lighting

Photography; Photography techniques

Background lighting is a controlled technique of lighting, used in photography or the theater, in which a light is placed behind or at right angles to an object, person, or scene to produce such ...

Dutch angle

Photography; Photography techniques

A Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is a type of camera shot where the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with ...

Linear perspective

Photography; Photography techniques

A means of producing a three-dimensional image onto a two-dimensional surface by the use of lines, mainily by using real world parallel lines and making them converge in the plane of the ...

focal point

Photography; Photography techniques

The focal point is the exact point at which the camera is focused at maximum sharpness. When looking into the viewfinder, it is usually marked in the center with either a circle or a set of brackets. ...