shot types

Ariel shot: A shot taken from a plane, helicopter or a person on top of a building. Not necessarily a moving shot. Back lighting: The main source of light is behind the subject, silhouetting it, and directed toward the camera.

Canted Angle: The Dutch angle, also known as Dutch tilt, canted angle, oblique angle or German angle, is 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

Close up:A close up in film making, television production, still photography and the comic strip medium is a type of shot, which tightly frames a person or an object.

Deep focus: Deep focus is a style or technique of cinematography and staging with great depth of field, using relatively wide-angle lenses and small lens apertures to render in sharp focus near and distant planes simultaneously. A deep-focus shot includes foreground, middle-ground, and extreme-background objects, all in focus. 

Establishing shot: An establishing shot is usually the first shot of a new scene, designed to show the audience where the action is taking place. It is usually a very wide shot or extreme wide shot.

Hand held shot: A shot made without benefit of tripod, dolly, or crane where the camera is held by the operator. 

Long shot:  When a long shot is used to set up a location and its participants in film and video, it is called an establishing shot. A related notion is that of an extreme long shot. This can be taken from as much as a quarter of a mile away, and is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot. 

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 eye line, looking up. The trunk shot is a specialized type of low-angle shot. it also gives power to whoever is in the shot. 

High angle shot: A high-angle shot is a cinematic technique where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle, it takes away all the power from the person in the shot.