underwater Photo Course :: (10) Promoting Your Work :: Portfolios :: Presentations :: Making Presentations Flow

Simple dissolves between shots can be easily enhanced. There are a couple of techniques that 'fool' the eye into seeing a moving image during a presentation.

If you shoot a scene with the foreground out of focus and background in focus, then pull focus so that the opposite happens for the next (registered) shot you create a feeling of 'zooming in' when replayed with dissolves between the two.

A pair of shots with the first lit by natural light comes alive if flash is used to light a feature in the second shot. This is most easily achieved in practice by taking the strobe lit picture first, and then taking the second shot before the strobe has time to recycle.

Sequences can not only be created by fixed framing during which only the subject moves, but also by linking images through shapes etc. You can also create sequences in the darkroom by cropping and duping.

Do

• Keep a theme - and say something with it.
• Have a beginning, middle, and end
• Keep continuity; e.g. don't have a diver change masks in mid dive!
• Watch your pace; quicken it to add tension during action scenes.
• Be ruthless in your editing. You must not include material of limited appeal. i.e. what we did on our holidays

Don't

• Mix shots with a different color balance, or great shots with poor
• Show irrelevant material just because it is good
• Mix uprights and horizontals