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Image-Making Skills
Quick questions on Genres, techniques and processes - SQA Higher Photography image-making skills
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What are specialist techniques?Show answer
Techniques are tools for particular effects. Long exposure uses a slow shutter speed (and usually a tripod, small aperture and sometimes a neutral density filter) to render motion as a smooth blur or to capture light trails. Panning follows a moving subject with a slow shutter so the subject stays relatively sharp while the background streaks, conveying speed. Macro photography captures tiny subjects at life size or larger, revealing detail the eye cannot see.
What is the workflow?Show answer
Digital photography follows a workflow. Capture is making the image well in the camera - correct exposure, deliberate composition and focus. Post-production editing then refines it on a computer: cropping and straightening, correcting exposure and white balance, adjusting contrast and colour, dodging and burning, removing distractions, and converting to black and white where it suits the image. Presentation is how the finished images are shown - as prints, a sequence, a book or a screen display - and the project requires presenting a series of images that work together.
What is q1?Show answer
Name two photographic genres and one convention of each. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
What is panning, and what effect does it create? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why should post-production editing enhance rather than replace good capture? [2 marks]
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