2. Light – key – high/low
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
High key lighting is when
the photograph is flooded
with light but doesn’t
mean overexposure.
Low key lighting is when
there's not much light
which gives it a strong
contrasts.
• High key light is harsh
lighting
• Low key light is
allowing minimal light
• High key lighting in
the first image
• Low key lighting in
the picture next to
it
3. Shutter speed
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
The purpose of shutter
speed is the length of time
a camera’s shutter is open
when taking a photograph.
• Fast shutter speed
captures photo in a
split second
• 3rd image has an
extremely slow
shutter speed which
gives it that effect
Slow shutter
speed
4. Shallow focus
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
Shallow focus is where the
depth of field is smaller
keeping only one plane in
sharp focus.
• Middle ground is in
focus in contrasts
with the other
grapes in the
background
• Middle ground is in
focus
• Background is out of
focus
5. Composition – rule of
thirds/powerpoints
Description/purpose of tool
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
• The subject is placed not
in the centre
• Rule of thirds is present in
this image as it has 1/3 of
sea and 2/3’s of sky.
Rule of thirds is 1/3 of
ground and 2/3 of sky.
7. Crop
Description/purpose of
tool
Crop makes an image look
less busy especially when
there’s objects in the
picture are not meant to
be there.
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
Non-cropped version:
Cropped version:
8. Rotate
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
Rotate is turn around on
an axis or center.
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
Before I rotated the
image…
Image is
landscape
Image after
rotation is
now
portrait
After I rotated the image…
9. Change colour
Description/purpose of tool
Change Colour enables you
to change the contrasts,
resolution and sharpness of
the image and alter the
effect of the image.
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example
( the result) before &
after
Before playing with
contrasts…
Before changing
After playing with
the colour
contrasts…
After changing
the colour
10. Effects (1/3 examples)
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
Effects on photos can
make them look extremely
interesting.
The tree is the
centre of the
image and is
the subject.
Fish eye effect
on the image
which makes
distorts reality.
11. Effects (2/3 examples)
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
Before effect…
After effect…
Original image looks
normal and unedited in
contrasts to the edited
picture which has its
greens almost the colour
yellow
Looks much more
12. Effects (3/3 examples)
Description/purpose of
tool
Annotated screen grabs
These effects
make pictures
look either
distorted or
sketched
Your annotated example (
the result) before & after
Comic
effect on
image
