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1. PHOTOGRAPHY
EXPERIMENTS
A series of photography
experiments and activities to try
that will enhance DSLR and
photography skills

2. • Take photos for each section, and add at
least one to each slide as an example
• Really think about each shot that you take
– you may want to take multiple photos
and then choose one (or more) for your
slide
• You can use a camera and a mobile
phone – whatever works for you for each
activity
• Re-format the slides and add new ones if
you need to

3. Rule of Thirds
1. Explain Rule of Thirds- When an
image is divided evenly into thirds,
both horizontally and vertically and
the image is placed at the
intersection.
2. Take a photo that fits this
composition technique

4. Shadows
1. Take a photo of an
interesting shadow
2. Take a shadow selfie

5. Reflections
1. Take a photo of an interesting reflection, e.g. water, mirror,
window, metal…

6. Close-ups
1. Take a close-up photo of an
everyday object e.g. pencil,
vegetable, candle, bottle etc…

7. One Object
1. Take 5 photos of one object, using
different angles, shot sizes,
locations etc.

9. Textures
1. Take a photo of an
interesting texture

10. Colours
1. Take one photo for each colour:
• Red
• Orange
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Purple
• Pink
• Brown
• White
• Black

12. Negative Space
1. What is negative space?-
The space around and
between the subject of an
image.
2. Take a photo that uses
negative space in its
composition