Camera Angles

High Angle

• High angle photos are taken looking down on the model. The main affect this has is that it gives the reader a senceof power or dominance over the subject. Makes the subject look small, weak or vulnerable.

Eye Level

• An eye level shot is when the camera is in line with the photo’s subject. This is used to connect to the reader more. An eye-level shot has little to no psychological effect on the viewer.

Low Angle

• Low angle photography gives the subject dominance over the photographer and the reader. A low angle gives the sense of power in the photoandis often used with a male subject, this being because of that dominance aspect.

Birds eye

• Bird's eye shot or bird's-eye viewshots are taken directly above the scene to establish the landscape and the actors relationship to it.

Lighting

High Key

• High Key Lighting is used to brighten up everything within the frame and cut down on shadows. With high key lighting, every person in the scene, as well as every object get the same amount of light so that everything looks even.

Low Key

• Low Key Lighting is all about shadows. If you want drama, tension, and darkness choose a Low Key lighting scheme for more high contrast visuals

Backlight

• Backlight is a term used in visual arts such as photography, film and stage lighting that simply means “light that comes from behind”.

• A light source placed on the opposite side of the “subject” (model, actor) from a viewer’s (camera, audience) point of view.

• The angle of backlighting can vary from low down, right up to nearly over the “subjects” head. Light directly overhead is referred to as “toplight” or “downlight” and shares similar lighting qualities to backlight.

Fill Light

• An auxiliary light, usually from the side of the subject that can soften shadows and illuminate areas not covered by the key light

Chiaroscuro

• The chiaroscuro technique dates back to the time of Renaissance paintings. Also sometimes called Rembrandt lighting, it often pertains to having one solitary light source and depicting stark contrasts between light and shadow.

Mid Key

• The term "mid key" describes an image with normal tone ranges an reflects the "average" photo.