What can a photographer learn from TV shows, movies, and commercial? As a photographer you can learn a lot. If you already see things like a photographer. You will see composition,focal point, and inspiration. Even someone who is just getting into photography can see how to a scene is framed. Just because it a moving image instead of a still image check out each scene. Whats in the background,whats in focus, what is the main subject or subjects in the frame. How many different angels of view in a scene.
Here is an example: I am watching a TV show. A police car is moving down the road. The car is the main subject in the frame because it in focus and every thing else is slightly out of focus. But I know the car is going down the road in a country area probably a farming area because of the fences. Now the next scene the car pulls into the driveway of a farm house but all you see of the car is the front fender. The farm house is in focus and so is the fender of the police car. The main subject is the farm house the next subject is the police car. Thats how videographers tells a story and that how photographers can tell stories with there photographs.
Placement,focus, and dominant subject in a photograph can tell a story. The background or the foreground in a photograph will help give you a location to help convey the story of your photograph.
Watching movies for me gives me so many inspirational ideas and concepts to try to photograph and take one scene that if its was a photography. You would know the story I wanted to tell or the movie concept. So when someone viewed my photograph they would remember the movie or at least the character.
So what can you learn from your big screen TV? Don’t forget to enjoy watching your big screen TV first then see what you can learn with it also…
Books,movies,TV shows,video games, and other photographers photographs can give you concepts and ideas for your own photographs.
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