Discover the various shots in photography.

Camera Angles

Camera angles and movements combine to create a sequence of images, just as words, word order and punctuation combine to make the meaning of a sentence. You need a straightforward set of key terms to describe them. In order to attain any good shoots camera angle should be followed.
When describing camera angles, or creating them yourself, you have to think about three important factors.

•  The FRAMING or the LENGTH of shot
• The ANGLE of the shot
•  If there is any MOVEMENT involved

SHOTS

The following are the most commonly used shots in photography. Let's get a look at them.

 1.Extremely long shot
This type of shot as the word described extremely long the camera here is placed at a far distance of miles in order to capture an entire view of a building or any other thing depending on what you are taking a shot of. This shot takes wide part of an environment. eg 

Photo credit elijahmwangi

2. Long shot

 Long shot.   Photo Credits elijahmwangi

This is the most difficult to categorise precisely, but is generally one which shows the image as approximately "life" size I.e corresponding to the real distance between the audience and the screen in a cinema (the figure of a man would appear as six feet tall). This category includes the FULL SHOT showing the entire human body, with the head near the top of the frame and the feet near the bottom. While the focus is on characters, plenty of background detail still emerges: we can tell the coffins on the right are in a Western-style setting, for instance.

Medium shots. Photo credits elijahmwangi.

3.Medium Shot
Contains a figure from the knees/waist up and is normally used for dialogue scenes, or to show some detail of action.Variations on this include the TWO SHOT (containing two figures from the waist up) and the THREE SHOT (contains 3 figures...). NB. Any more than three figures and the shot tends to become a long shot.Background detail is minimal, probably because location has been established earlier in the scene - the audience already know where they are and now want to focus on dialogue and character interation. Another variation in this category is the OVER-THE-SHOULDER-SHOT, which positions the camera behind one figure, revealing the other figure, and part of the first figure's back, head and shoulder.

4.close-up
This shows very little background, and concentrates on either a face, or a specific detail of mise en scène. Everything else is just a blur in the background. This shot magnifies the object (think of how big it looks on a cinema screen) and shows the importance of things, be it words written on paper, or the expression on someone's face. The close-up takes us into the mind of a character.

Close-up.  Photo credit elijahmwangi

5.Extreme close-up

Extreme close up. Photo credits elijahmwangi.

As its name suggests, an extreme version of the close up, generally magnifying beyond what the human eye would experience in reality. An extreme close-up of a face, for instance, would show only the mouth or eyes, with no background detail whatsoever. This is a very artificial shot, and can be used for dramatic effect. The tight focus required means that extra care must be taken when setting up and lighting the shot - the slightest camera shake or error in focal length is very noticeable.