Still image from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- Part 2 (2011)
Example of distance, I used more than one room with the intention of creating layers.
Experimenting with angle, height, distance and level was
something totally new for me, I didn't expect it to be so challenging to make
more intentional compositions and above all I didn't expect it to take me so
long to understand the meanings of each of these elements. One of the hardest things,
for example, was to get these cinematic concepts and their meaning into a
single photo, and yet after trying and trying my best I still feel like it's
missing something. One of the biggest challenges was definitely distance, not
only was it difficult to comprehend, but also difficult to capture and, above
all, to align all the elements so that it didn't look like just a photo taken
from afar. For distance I obviously thought of a photo from afar, but I didn't
want to do it in an empty place, to make it seem more distant I opted to use my
kitchen and garage, so the doors looked like "layers", a complex
place with several layers. I tried to make a more meaningful composition using
the 'noise' that creates all the clutter and elements around the 'subject' to
create an emotional isolation effect.
Distance was not the only challenge to create my photographs;
the second most difficult element was height.
For this element, after researching, I decided to use the most obvious
option – Bird's eye – because I thought it was the easiest to do (but I was
clearly wrong). Bird's eye is easy in terms of comprehension but it's
definitely not easy to execute. I had many challenges for this element, such as
my subject did not listen to my instructions, the high place where I was to
take the photo was stiff and it was also very difficult to align the subject
with the rule of three and keep the camera stabilized with my shaky arm. After
all the inconveniences, I am proud of the result of that photograph.
Last but not least we have level and angle. For level I
tried to do a Dutch tilt; The only hard thing about this is that the photo
seemed to be taken accidentally and not prepared/intentional. Angle was my
favorite -because it was the easiest to make-. With angle I didn't have to try
as hard because the low angle naturally makes the subject look more powerful. Overall,
this post was a challenge for me but also enjoyable.
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