right here we have got all the elements for what should be a really interesting
picture
we've got beach huts which says seaside weekend off, we've got a nice cloudy car
sitting here
we've got a tree we've got a bit of an interesting background in the skies a
bit cloudy be nicer if it was blue,
but this compostion isn't working is it. It's kinda messy
uncomfortable and untidy, so how do we go about cleaning it up?
just using those movements of tilting up and down
moving up and down and shifting from side to side and twisting the camera
we're gonna shift the elements around but the first big problem
is over here it's this
blue bin, it's a horrible looking thing and we need to get rid of it.
now I can just pick it up and hurl it over the hedge because i'd get in loads of trouble,
what we need to do is to hide it, what are we gonna do and
how we gonna do that how we gonna hide a bin? we're gonna hide it
behind the car if Jayne starts to make
very gentle movements to her right you can see that, that gap
between the bin and the car is getting narrower
and narrower. I'm keeping ou of the shot so you can watch it happen.
and in a moment it will disappear completely
behind the car. As you can see that's looking better already isn't it?
now coming back into the picture
we've got the horizon which is running
pretty much through here somewhere through the back window of the car
I'm not seeing anything wrong with that, it's an interesting horizon
but as a little experiment let's see what it would look like
if we lost that horizon, if we either put it above the car
or below the car do you remember how you do that you move horizons by
raising and lowering the camera so first off let's put the horizon
above the car and to do that
we need to raise the camera up in the air this might be a bit jerky because
James not very told his left inkatha heavy camera
I would like a picture of her doing it so you can say what is struggling to do
to get that shot me get out of it as you can say
the horizon is now going above
the roof of the car and we've lost the bin, so that is a lot better.
but it's a little bit disappointing because
the top of this tree here is being chopped off, i find that really really annoying
so how do we get the tree back into the shot and not have the horizon
running through the back of the window now that up and down movement.
isn't it you remember the one down and tilt so as Jayne moves the camera and
gets lower, so you can watch that horizon starting to go down below the car
below the car
and disappear and as she tilts the camera
up you can see that's pretty much nicer isn't it, the horizon
has now disappeared completely behind the car
it's kinda down here somewhere what we're looking at the sort of June still
hella key things going off into the distance.
we got a tree that's that's looking
nice in the shot, it's kinda filling the frame, the cars nice and dominant
the only really irritating this is that tree is growing out
the car windmirror bonnet, somewhere round here. The trunk is sticking out of the car,
that's not very nice is it how we gonna do that well now we gotta move that
tree, we need to create a gap
between the front to the car here and that tree trunk which is sticking up
somewhere in this area here, we wanna move the tree
over here it's another sideways movement
I'm just gonna take a quick picture so you can see where Jayne is
to get that shot which is including the top of the tree
so now let's start to create a gap between the front of the car
and that tree, and to do it Jayne's gonna move that way
whilst keeping the camera low down, down Jayne down,
really hard isn't it she's walking along this weird sort of a crouch
let me get out of the shot, so just look at that for a moment.
now we've got the tree up in the corner
we got the car its all really lovely isn't it but there's something
missing isn't there? What hapopened to our beach huts?
well we did the side to side movement didn't we, now we need to rotate the camera
that way just a little bit to make those gaps
at the side change, there's a gap beyond tis bush over here which isn't very
useful.
so we wanna get rid of that and bring in the beach huts so this bit of shrub here
is just on the edge of the shot
Jayne turn the camera in that sort of motion
towards the beach huts I'll get out of the shot
they have come back in.
as you can see that as a much more pleasing composition
the car is he sort framed between the shrub and the tree and the beach huts
are going off into the distance
to give it a bit of a dynamic,
and all of that every last piece of this composition
at this picture, if we flick through this one and the first one when we set up here
there's an enormous difference yet we have not moved anything, we havne't changed
the camera setting
all we've done his tilt the camera up
or down or twist it side to side or go up and down with it
these this is how you align elements of your pictures
to get an interesting composition get out there and play with it
and don't worry if people laugh at you.