Camera angles you need to know.

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There are many reasons that I love photography, not the least of which is that a photograph has the ability to convey stories to those that view them.
Today i will be taking you through the various camera angles to make you understand more about photography.
The camera angle marks the specific location at which the camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from several camera angles simultaneously depending on the scene required. Where the camera is placed in relation to the subject can affect the way the viewer perceives the subject. A Viewpoint is the apparent distance and angle from which the camera views and records the subject. this are some of the camera angles that are commonly used today.

The Bird's-Eye view

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This shows a scene from directly overhead, a very unnatural and strange angle. Familiar objects viewed from this angle might seem totally unrecognisable at first (umbrellas in a crowd, dancers' legs). This shot does, however, put the audience in a godlike position, looking down on the action. People can be made to look insignificant, ant-like, part of a wider scheme of things. Hitchcock (and his admirers, like Brian de Palma) is fond of this style of shot.

   High Angle

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Not so extreme as a bird's eye view. The camera is elevated above the action using a crane to give a general overview. High angles make the object photographed seem smaller, and less significant (or scary). The object or character often gets swallowed up by their setting - they become part of a wider picture.

Eye Level

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A fairly neutral shot; the camera is positioned as though it is a human actually observing a scene, so that eg actors' heads are on a level with the focus.

The camera will be placed approximately five to six feet from the ground.

Low Angle

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These increase height and give a sense of speeded motion. Low angles help give a sense of confusion to a viewer, of powerlessness within the action of a scene. The background of a low angle shot will tend to be just sky or ceiling, the lack of detail about the setting adding to the disorientation of the viewer. The added height of the object may make it inspire fear and insecurity in the viewer, who is psychologically dominated by the figure on the screen.

Oblique/Canted Angle

Sometimes the camera is tilted (ie is not placed horizontal to floor level), to suggest imbalance, transition and instability (very popular in horror movies). This technique is used to suggest POINT-OF-View shots (ie when the camera becomes the 'eyes' of one particular character,seeing what they see — a hand held camera is often used for this.

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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.

FOUR PHOTOGRAPHY FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW

Photography is the technology of creating images on a light sensitive medium by way of recording an electromagnetic radiation.Over the ages, photography has become a form of art, and people used it for different purposes, including manufacturing, science, business, recreation, mass communication and hobby. The science of photography has a history of its own.

In as much as we love taking photos, Let's have a look at seven facts about the history of photography that you must know:

Photo credits elijah Karungu 

1.The first selfie ever

Selfies are all the craze these days they dominate the today's Internet. People wink, pout, and give different expression in the camera to click their own pictures. But do you know who clicked the world's first selfie? It was Robert Cornelius: He was a chemist and a photography enthusiast from Philadelphia, USA. He had set up his camera in the back part of his family store. He removed the lens cap and ran into the frame to capture his own photograph. The image capturing process took around one minute, after which he went back to cover the lens. On the photograph's back side, he wrote 'first light picture ever taken'. Clicked in 1839, this first ever selfie is over 175 years old.

Photo credits elijah karungu

2.The first colored photo
No one wants a black and white photo anymore let's find out the first colored photograph when was it taken. 
The first ever colored photograph was taken in 1861 by a popular physicist from Scotland, named James Clerk Maxwell. He was already famous for his contributions in electromagnetism, and he used this photograph in one of his lectures. It was a set of 3 black and white photographs captured through red, green and blue color filters. Because it was quite imperfect and unimpressive, it soon was forgotten. Later, Charles Cros and Louis Ducos du Hauron made viewing of photographs possible without projecting them. They even used this method to create full color paper prints.

credit elijah karungu

3. The oldest still existing photograph

Its well known as a throw back we all love throw backs but have you considered how and when was the first TBT TAKEN and how it looks like. The oldest photograph that still exists, was created in 1826-27 by Joseph Niepce. He used a polished pewter sheet, which he rendered light sensitive by applying a thin coat of bitumen. This is a naturally produced petroleum tar, which he dissolved in lavender oil, applied on the pewter surface and left it to dry. After exposure in the camera for around 8 hours, the bitumen got hardened. As the unhardened portions were not removed using a solvent, a positive image was left. To actually see the plain image, one had to lit the plate and view it in such a manner that the bitumen looked light and metal looked dark. Later, he refined this process, after which the image viewing became easier and the exposure times were significantly reduced.

Taken 1826

 4.Introduction of photography as an art form

It was Alfred Steiglitz who introduced photography to the masses as an art form. He was an American modern art promoter and photographer who ran an art movement and made photography a part of people's everyday life. He had a passion for photography and owned a number of art galleries in New York, with an aim to introduce European artists to the public. He recognized photographers as artists, and started Photo-Secession.

Its of great importance to recognize this facts as they have made photography what it is today. 

THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

         THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY

         For the many photography is just a word that describes the art of taking photos, i cannot lie most people do not understand how far and what just photography means. In this case am going to take you through a brife story of photography.

                                              HISTORY

The history of photography has roots in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles, that of the camera obscura image projection and the fact that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light, as discovered by observation. Apart from a very uncertain process used on the Turin Shroud there are no artifacts or descriptions that indicate that anyone even imagined capturing images with light sensitive materials before the 18th century. Around 1717 Johann Heinrich Schulze captured cut-out letters on a bottle of a light-sensitive slurry, but he apparently never thought of making the results durable.

Around 1800 Thomas Wedgwood made the first reliably documented, although unsuccessful attempt at capturing camera images in permanent form. His experiments did produce detailed photograms, but Wedgwood and his associate Humphry Davy found no way to fix these images.

photography and photos.

In the mid-1820s, Nicéphore Niépce first managed to fix an image that was captured with a camera, but at least eight hours or even several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce's associate Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process.

 In the mid-1820s, Nicéphore Niépce first managed to fix an image that was captured with a camera, but at least eight hours or even several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce's associate Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process.The daguerreotype required only minutes of exposure in the camera, and produced clear, finely detailed results.The details were introduced as a gift to the world in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography.

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.

The metal-based daguerreotype process soon had some competition from the paper-based calotype negative and salt print processes invented by William Henry Fox Talbot. Subsequent innovations made photography easier and more versatile. New materials reduced the required camera exposure time from minutes to seconds, and eventually to a small fraction of a second; new photographic media were more economical, sensitive or convenient, including roll films for casual use by amateurs. In the mid-20th century, developments made it possible for amateurs to take pictures in natural color as well as in black and white.

 The commercial introduction of computer-based electronic digital cameras in the 1990s soon revolutionized photography. During the first decade of the 21st century, traditional film-based photochemical methods were increasingly marginalized as the practical advantages of the new technology became widely appreciated and the image quality of moderately priced digital cameras was continually improved. Especially since cameras became a standard feature on smartphones, taking pictures (and instantly publishing them online) has become an ubiquitous everyday practice around the world.

Photo credits Ricky Nderitu.

 Am hoping that you have understood that photography was one of the most important inventions of the 20th centuary, photos in the present days have come with a big heat making the world a better place to be they keep memories that one cannot afford to lose.

 Next we will be lookig at The Past and Present of Photography Technology.

PHOTOGRAPHY

By the looks on the photos below it's actually evident you can tell am happy, but that's not  important am i in LOVE?
                        Let's Find Out.
                           RELATIONSHIP..?
To most loving is all about commitments. 

What are this commitment....checking on your partner each and every time,that i can say it is the most critical of all relationships.
Most relationships don't work due to lack of commitment. Loving its all about making sacrifices that will only be of help to your partner.

Time its also an important thing in any given relationship. 

If you don't give time to your pattern then that means he or she isn't that important to you and that in most case it leads to break ups.

PHOTOGRAPHY 3 facts about photography and how effective photos can be.

Photography       Finding beauty hidden in plain sight: 

As always there is a fascinating little world hidden scene waiting to be discovered. some of this fascinating facts are hidden in photography this are the little secrets about photos you did'nt know they include:
            a) Photos depict a persons true emotion. In this photo below its very cleare that 
the person is in a meditation act the person is feeling good as it can be seen.   

                                        Photo credit ELIJAH KARUNGU.
          b) Photos keep personal memories. yoush try not to laugh because this being the same person as the one on the first picture its easy to tell its a throwback just from how the persons face looks diffrent this is to tell pictures do keep memories.

        c) Photos attracts attention. if you take a good look at this photo you can tell the two are happy i mean who in his rightfull mind would not want to read a story attached to that picture.
                                    

  PHOTO CREDITS:

  ELIJAH KARUNGU WARUGA & RIQUIE THOMAS NDERITU.

            

               WE SHOULD ALWAYS APPRECIATE PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART WORK.