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Mastering Portrait Photography: Techniques, Tips, and Assignments for Captivating Images

Discover the art of portrait photography, focusing on capturing the essence of your subjects. A portrait represents a person, showcasing their face, personality, and mood. This guide covers various portrait types, including environmental portraits that tell a story and basic portraits emphasizing light and composition. Valuable tips include using side lighting, avoiding harsh shadows, and adhering to composition rules. You'll find assignments to practice and enhance your skills, encouraging creativity in capturing intimate and engaging portraits of different individuals.

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Mastering Portrait Photography: Techniques, Tips, and Assignments for Captivating Images

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  1. Portrait Photography Take notes in your sketchbook!

  2. What is a portrait?? • A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.

  3. Types of Portrait Photography • Environmental- the background tells a story • Basic- great lighting, eye contact, composition, basic background • Cropped- the subject’s face is cropped to help enhance the photo or the photo’s meaning

  4. What do I need to keep in mind when taking portraits? • Light on the subject- side lighting is usually best- you never want the light in their eyes • Shadow- you do not want harsh shadows on the subject’s face • Composition- think “rule of thirds” • Background- are you taking an environment portrait? Will you be working with depth of field for a blurry background?

  5. Who is a good Environment Portrait Artist?? • Mark Hancock • http://www.newseagles.com/portfolio/portrait-01.html

  6. Examples of portrait photographs: • http://www.flickr.com/photos/deissner/tags/portrait/ • http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/portrait/interesting/

  7. Homework • Due: 1 week from today • Assignments: #1 Take a basic portrait of someone outside: you must rearrange them and shoot at least 5 times.. I want to see the light on different sides of them, shadows played with or moved, etc. *Do this to 2 different people for a total of 10 photos #2 Take an environmental portrait of someone: this portrait needs to be shot at least 5 different ways and the background must say something about the person.. Example: If you were taking one of an artist, you would shoot them in their art studio, etc. **You will have NO LESS THAN 15 portrait photos on the due date; more than 15 is great!!

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