Day: February 20, 2020

Learning objectives:

• I know a few techniques for how to capture different sides of a personality.
• I understand what aperture is and how it can control how much of an image is in focus.

Step by Step:

1. Check out Today’s Warm Up: 21 Techniques for Self Portraits – Also works for normal portraits. Answer the questions and save your two favorite photos to your visual journal.
2. If you were able to turn in your slow shutter speed photo. Help someone who doesn’t know how to do that.
3. Sketch out an idea for Indoor & Outdoor. And take a photo to put into your visual journal.

21 Creative Self Portrait Photography Ideas You Should Try

For today’s warm up, we will be looking at 21 different self portrait ideas for photographers that can also work well for portrait photography in general. Remember we want to really get to know something about someone and put that down in the image.

These techniques can help show the side of the person we are photographing. After looking at the ideas, save your two favorite examples to your visual journal.

Then answer these questions:

Which two techniques are techniques you could use in your indoor/outdoor photo challenge?

Which side of your subject are you going to capture? Which of these techniques get to that side you are trying to capture?