Portraiture

For this task, we were asked to take three pictures of the same, or different subject in a portraiture fashion. I took many photos, struggling to find one that I was actually proud of. Eventually, however, I found a subject that was more than willing to be the subject of my photographs. For my three photos, I used the same person and asked him to show different expressions for each different photograph. These expressions include aggressiveness, happiness, and confusion. In this post, I am going to show them all and describe what techniques I used to take the image, what I like about them and how I took the image. Here are my three images for Portraiture:

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All of these images used the same background, mostly because I wanted my photos to have some form of consistency to them. The background in question is the outside side of a window on the side of the Minerva building, where the blinds are closed on the opposite side. The main reason I chose this is that I thought it was more unique than using a simple, singular coloured background. As you can see, some of the scenes that are behind the camera can be seen in the reflection of the window, behind the subject. I thought this could make an interesting photo.

Something else I wanted to do was have the subject interact with the camera. For this photo shoot, I asked him to pull multiple facial expressions as mentioned earlier. I wanted it to seem that whatever facial expression he was pulling, was directed at the viewer of the photograph. This is so that they feel more connected to the subject. Originally I was planning on using a reflector, but after looking at the photos the first time, I deemed it unnecessary as I believed that they looked fine. The lighting in this picture is from the sky, of which was cloudy at the time of me taking the photographs.

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