Assignment Three: high/low key, zoom, perspective, close-up

I could not understand the technical aspects of high key and low key, and the meaning of perspective for quite some time, especially about the metering..!

High key

I think is quite okay...

Low key

CANNOT MAKE IT.

Zoom shot

Never knew zoom shots are created like this. It is not hard to achieve a good zoom effect if you’re using a tripod stand, but if everybody can easily produce a zoom shot, what makes your zoom shot more interesting than the others’? I tried playing around with different methods of zooming, for example for the teletext screen, I think I did something like zoom in/out, span a little to the left, and zoom out/in again with the click of the shutter. Not sure if it qualifies as a zoom shot or am I trying too hard. Haha. I find it safer with the danger sign. And it seems like Jing is rather particular about the straightness of the lines in the zooming, I’ll probably retake the photo.

Perspective

Pardon me for the blurriness in the foreground, but this picture does stretches very 'far' right?

Close-up

I know this is a very safe shot to do (on fruits) but I don’t find it creative. And also, it is not really easy to take very sharp and clear close-up photos without having parts of the photo blurry due to the DOF.

(final photos)

(these are marbles that I have kept since young)

At last I am rather satisfied with my low key photo, albeit it being partially blurred inevitably. This assignment is the one with the highest number of photos that need not be retaken or have kept its subject.