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Photography is Art
Camera Angle
Art Standard Creative Expression and Production:
Students will demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art.
3.2. Investigate a variety of ways that artists develop ideas and organize the elements of art in response to what they see, know, and feel.
3.2.b Identify and describe color, line, shape, texture, form, space, and selected principles of design, such as pattern, repetition, contrast, and balance in artworks that convey what they see, know, and feel.
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2. POINT OF VIEW Camera Angle
The camera angle marks the specific location at which a camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from several camera angles. This will give different experience and sometimes emotion.
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3. High- Angle Shot- aka Bird’s Eye View
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4. Low-Angle Shot aka Worm’s Eye view
A low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera positioned low on the vertical axis, often at knee height, looking up.
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Dutch Angle
A Dutch angle is achieved by tilting the camera off to the side so that the shot is composed with the horizon at an angle to the bottom of the frame.
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Straight Angle
Any photograph taken straight on- many of the Points Of View can be combined to make even more interesting techniques.
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Front View
Side View
Close up
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