For today’s warm up we will look at last semester’s Indoor Outdoor photos. Choose two photos to write about, one outdoor and one indoor. Download the photos and put them into your visual journal, then answer the questions below.
Choose one indoor and one outdoor portrait that you think does the best job of showing a side of your subject? Can you tell what side of the person’s personality the photographer is trying to show? Why are the successful ones successful? What side are you going to show of your person? Will it be as successful?
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:
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.
If you were able to turn in your slow shutter speed photo. Help someone who doesn’t know how to do that.
Sketch out an idea for Indoor & Outdoor. And take a photo to put into your visual journal.
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?
We’ll watch this video in class. Then afterwards. answer these questions into your visual journal. Copy the link to your video and put it into your visual journal.
For this week’s photo challenge, you will take one INDOOR PORTRAIT and one OUTDOOR PORTRAIT. of the same person One taken inside in one of our studio spaces, and one taken outdoors, either outside of school or on school grounds.
The purpose of any portrait isn’t just taking a flattering image of someone, but trying to get across the the viewer the essence of that person. Notice all of these examples show people being truly themselves. We can tell what their interests are based on where they are placed. Lying down on a patch of grass and looking up at the sky, arms placed just so. We get the essence of a person there. Standing in the batting cages, the light hitting her harshly, but she takes that light head on, with no apologies, there is personality there as well.
WE WANT TO GET PASSED THE SELFIE LOOK AND TRULY GET TO KNOW ANOTHER PERSON.
Find out two bits of information about this person, and capture two sides of their personality in two different photos.
One example could bet, Softball, see above. Or shyness, see above with the hand over the mouth. Maybe the person feels withdrawn, maybe they are a cocky confident personality, maybe they are goofy, funny. Put this in the shot!
To do these photos, we will be using the AV mode of the camera. This time we will be using APERTURE to control DEPTH OF FIELD
Depth of field is the amount of focus in an image.
In Narrow Depth of Field, we only see the Wolf in focus. Whereas in Large Depth of field, we see everything.
Depth of field is controlled by Aperture. In the AV mode of the camera. The Aperture is the size of the opening in the lens that lets light into the camera.
Note that the smaller the aperture number, f/1.4, the larger the opening, the larger the opening the smaller the opening. It works backwards.
So if you want the background blurred out, use an aperture of f/1.4 For everything in focus, you want to use a higher aperture, f/11, or f/22. Note that aperture effects shutter speed, and with a aperture setting of f/22, the shutter speed will be several seconds, so you need a tripod when shooting in this mode.
USE A/V mode to control aperture. Most portraits focus on the person, but a middle setting would allow the background to be visible as well.
What I’m grading you on:
Clear, in focus images.
A background that informs us of your person’s personality.
Appropriate Depth of field to the subject.
Strong sense of who this person is.
One indoor portrait and one outdoor portrait are due on Wednesday, 2/26
Strong Photography 19-20 