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How To Analyse A Photograph: Subject

This document provides a worksheet to guide students in analyzing key elements of a photograph, including its subject, camera shots and angles, composition, lighting, and context. The worksheet contains 16 questions to consider such as describing the subject matter, camera angle, depth of field, lighting source, and balance/symmetry. It also prompts analyzing the mood, message, and whether the artist successfully communicated their intended meaning. The goal is to have students closely examine technical and interpretive aspects of a chosen photograph.

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How To Analyse A Photograph: Subject

This document provides a worksheet to guide students in analyzing key elements of a photograph, including its subject, camera shots and angles, composition, lighting, and context. The worksheet contains 16 questions to consider such as describing the subject matter, camera angle, depth of field, lighting source, and balance/symmetry. It also prompts analyzing the mood, message, and whether the artist successfully communicated their intended meaning. The goal is to have students closely examine technical and interpretive aspects of a chosen photograph.

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Name: Grade: UPPER PRIMARY/ LOWER SECONDARY WORKSHEET

How to Analyse a Photograph


As a class group, in pairs or individually, choose a photograph from
the exhibition and analyse it.

Remember! A photograph is a 2-D image of a 3-D scene. Analysing a photograph


looks at different characteristics compared to how we analyse other 2-D artwork.
Exhibition:
Artist: Artwork title:
Date created: Medium:

SUBJECT
1. Describe the photograph’s subject matter, is it a: Person,
Place, Object, Thing or Idea? What do you see?

2. Does the image look realistic or abstract? Has there been any manipulation of the
scene using camera techniques such as lighting, movement etc. Explain your
answer?

CAMERA SHOTS & ANGLES


The point of view determines what angle the photo was taken from
therefore it alters perspective. Was the photo taken at eye level,
from a bird’s eye view, from ground level, from the side etc.

3. Draw the angle with your ruler at which


you think the photographer took this 4. Tick which camera shot has been
picture. used?
Label it: Top View (Bird’s Eye), High level, Eye
 Extreme Close up (Macro)
level, Low level, Bottom View (Worm’s eye).
 Close up/ Short
 Medium
 Long
 Extreme Long
 Wide angle.

Object

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Education & Professional Development Program Coordinator
Name: Grade: UPPER PRIMARY/ LOWER SECONDARY WORKSHEET

5. Describe the use of Depth of field (how blurry or sharp the foreground or
background is) the photographer has used. Explain what effect it has on the
photograph.

6. Has the photograph been framed by using the camera or the objects in the scene?
For example, has the photograph been cropped by using a close-up shot, or has
an archway been used to focus on the subject matter?

Composition Shape:
COMPOSITION
7. Draw in the box the composition’s shape
used in the photograph.
For example, are the objects in the composition
in the shape of e.g. a triangle, a circle, a square,
a rectangle, an “S”, a “V”, an“L”.

Shade in negative space:


8. Draw in the box the outline of objects in the
photograph. Shade in the negative spaces.

9. How is the photograph balanced? (Ciricle) Is it


symmetrical or asymmetrical?

Lighting Source:
LIGHTING
10.(Circle) Is the lighting natural or artificial?

11.Draw in the box the photograph’s focal point and


an arrow showing where the lighting source is
coming from? (Is it front-lit, side-lit, back-lit, from
above down or from below up?)

12.(Circle) Is the photograph overexposed (very bright photo) or underexposed (very


dark photo) or equal in contrast of light and dark areas?

13.Describe the mood of the photograph using 5 adjectives. For example; is the
photograph dark and sombre, or bright and happy etc.

Created by Chrissy Dwyer


Education & Professional Development Program Coordinator
Name: Grade: UPPER PRIMARY/ LOWER SECONDARY WORKSHEET

EXTENSION QUENSTIONS

CONTEXT
14.Describe any social, political, historical, or religious ideas represented in this
artwork.

15.What do you think the artist was trying to communicate? What is the message or
meaning behind this photograph?

16.Overall, do you think the artist was successful or not in communicating his
message? Why/Why not? What could have been done differently?

Created by Chrissy Dwyer


Education & Professional Development Program Coordinator

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