portraits / studio work / composition


The way in which I want to shoot my images is in a set of 6 portraits the reason for this is after reading bate's work on portraiture I feel this is the best way to get a full visual representation as bate's describes portraits as being an 'identity' that can be depicted through the photos. As you can I have chosen the artist 'Joel Knight' as research for modern portraiture, shot in a studio as in this weeks session we are experimenting we will be experimenting in the studio working with different lighting and seeing if I wanted to shoot my final images in a studio environment.

 This portrait on the left by Joel Knights is a perfect example is what I'am trying to achieve in the studio in todays session as it has nice lighting that highlights the subjects face showing their key features. And after reading David Prakël's reading on 'composition' I learnt that 'composition is the process of identifying and arranging the elements to produce a coherent image' and during this session I want to be able to compose a photo confidently recreating Knights work.


David Prakël: "'what can be left out' of a picture will strengthen it. look for the simplest theme"






Here on the left I have created a contact sheet of my session in the studio. Having the time in the studio allowed me to get to know how the lighting works and how changing the positions of different lights can obtain different shadows and allow to to highlight different parts of your subjects face. When shooting in the studio I wanted to get different emotions of my subject so I could experiment with different facial expressions and what lighting I think went best with each photo.















Above on the left you can see my subject is smiling there fore connoting  happiness, I also like the lighting in this photo because I think it shows the subjects attributes well. I chose this specific subject in this task as I feel it links to social imperfections which is what 'Olivia Rose' challenges in in her work and is also something I would like to show in my project. Above on the right you can see another shot showing sadness.


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