Shot types and descriptions

Medium mid shotShows some part of the subject in more detail

while still giving an impression of the whole subject.

Medium close up

• This shot is halfway between a medium shot and a close up,showing a persons head and shoulders.

Close up

• A certain feature or part of the subject takes up the whole frame.

Extreme close up

• The ECU gets right in and shows extreme detail.

Medium long shot

• Frames the whole subject from the knees up.

High angle shot

• In film, a high angle shot is usually when the camera angle is located above the eyeline. With this type of angle, the camera looks down on the subject and the point of focus often get "swallowed up" by the setting.

Low angle shot

• In cinematography, a low-angle shot, is a shot from a camera angle positioned low on the vertical axis, anywhere below the eyeline, looking up. The trunk shot is a specialized type of low-angle shot.

Tilted Frame

• A type of camera shot where the camera is set at an angle on its roll axis so that the shot is composed with vertical lines at an angle to the side of the frame, or so that the horizon line of the shot is not parallel with the bottom of the camera frame.

Over shoulder shot

• A shot whereby the camera is looking from behind a person at the subject.

Two shot

• A shot of two people,framed similarly to a mid shot.

Very long shot

• An very long shot is a view from an even greater distance, in which people appear as small dots in the landscape if at all (eg. a shot of New York's skyline).

Long shot

• Shows the entire object or human figure and is usually intended to place it in some relation to its surroundings

A photograph with connotations of friendship.

A photograph with connotations of stress