Composition and Visual Storytelling · Page 41 of 101

Depth, Backgrounds, Timing and Storytelling

Learn to simplify backgrounds and use layers and timing to strengthen a story.

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What you will learn

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

Use this outcome in the page activity and record useful evidence in your photography journal.

Step 1. Identify why depth, backgrounds, timing and storytelling matters to the photograph you want to make.

Step 2. Prepare the subject, location, equipment and any required permission.

Step 3. Practise how to simplify backgrounds and use layers and timing to strengthen a story.

Step 4. Review focus, exposure, light, composition, story and responsible practice.

Step 5. Complete this activity: Wait for the decisive moment in one planned composition instead of taking many random frames.

Safe and responsible practice: Represent people and places honestly and remove distractions by changing position first.

Wait for the decisive moment in one planned composition instead of taking many random frames.

The main subject is clear

Every frame adds new information

Complete the practical activity for depth, backgrounds, timing and storytelling

Record settings or decisions that produced the best result

Review the result on a second screen or as a print

Ask a qualified person when safety, privacy or legal consequences are significant

I understand the key ideas on this page. I completed or planned the practical activity.

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