Chris's Portrait Post
This assignment was quick and required less amount of time than normal assignments. This led to some missing quality. It required us to take pictures at four different stations where one's station had natural lighting, and two of them had a good amount of natural light, and one required the use of artificial light. Each station had a different lens and required a little bit of tinkering to take a good portrait. We took these portraits that were decent though the main purpose was that we analyze and study our mistakes so that we can take great portraits later on.
10 Steps to Creating a Good Portrait:
1. Frame your shot so that the subject takes most of the picture. Doing this will allow for less distraction on more focus on the subject.
2. Try using the Rule of Thirds. Doing this require to place your subject in one of the four intersecting lines or "sweet spots" and these spots are what our eyes are drawn to.
3. The depth of field. As your object being the most important thing, you want to keep your subject in focus so that the "ground" does not take away from your subject.
4. Taking back the saturation of the picture (making it black and white) can give your portrait a creative look.
5. Taking your time. If you are trying to get a natural portrait, take your time and take multiple shots, this gives you a higher chance of getting great portraits.
6. Decide on what your image you are trying to portray, this saves time for other options.
7. Using Reflections. The use of reflections creates an interesting and creative portrait.
8. Adding shadow. This gives the viewers more interest into the picture.
9.Playing with your light. This will create certain effects depending on how it is used.
10.Using props. The use of props will create contrasts of interest within the picture.
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