Photography Techniques

Visit the Photography Techniques page on my digital portfolio. Select three techniques that you might use in your photography for the American Icons project. Then, post an example of these three techniques. Label each one with it's name and a few sentences of your own in which you describe how it enhances the photo.

Macro photography is focusing on something small and everything else in the background is really out of focus. Macro is taking a picture of something that is really small and would usually be out of focus in the normal camera setting, but the image is focused and detail is able to be seen.

Bokeh photography is taking a picture and the background in the picture is out of focus. It means that the background behind the image of the picture is fuzzy or blurry. There are some kinds of bokeh where the photograph has light spots in the back or is so blurred that it shows up as sparks of light.

Slow shutter speed is when the lens is open for a longer amount of time than it  is when taking a regular picture. When the lens is open, waiting to take the picture, it captures the image at a slower amount of time and taking in the whole image and combining it in the final result. Slow shutter speed can also freeze the image and focus on the image while it is moving and the background is blurry and less focused.