Rule of Thirds
Black Background
The process I used to make my photos was, using minimal lights but making sure the person was seen. What worked was putting our hands mostly over the light, but leaving a little light to show the person. What didn’t work was showing the full light onto the person. You can find our photos here.
Portraits With a Black Background
In this project I had to work in a group, and we all had to work together to take 5 photos of each other standing in front of a black backdrop. We also included the way the lighting is shined onto the black backdrop to create suspense on the picture. What worked out well was catching the off guard moments taking the picture. The thing that was challenging is coming up with 5 different poses to do for our picture and ways to shine they light to be able to see the person in the dark. doing this project reminds me of the photos that would be put on for a magazine. click Here to see the rest of my pictures
Portraits with an Infinite Background
So we first had to get the lighting right so we it would be easy to edit the photos. you can see the rest of my photos here.
Portraits with a black background
We tried different angles and poses and even used our phone flashlight so we wouldn’t get a shadow. What worked is using our own to cover some of the light so there it wasn’t so bright. The light would be so bright and before we figured out that trick the pictures turned out orange so we had to restart. Find the rest of my pictures here
Portrait Photos
This project was about taking pictures with dark backgrounds. The light was focused on us to reveal our faces in the dark. The pictures were taken up close to get a better picture of our faces up close. The challenges that came with this project were, mostly about the camera focusing on the person’s face. Another challenge that came with the project was that the light had to be at just angle. This project also had some easy parts that went by quickly like when we had to edit the pictures to make us look lighter in the background.
/Black Portraits/
In this project we did something very similar to my other project “Portraits with an Infinite background”. Except we used a black background; believe it or not this changed everything about our photos. We still used light on our faces and realized later on that light could be both good and bad; because if we did not use light our faces would not be seen. Light also created shadows and beams of light on our black background something we don’t want. We then tried a method of pointing the light away from the model, this created enough light to be seen in the photo but not enough for the light to reach our background. I enjoyed being able to explore the dark side of portraits; I enjoyed it more than the white backgrounds. Click here to see all my other photos!
Portraits with Infinity Background 2?
To take my photos I used a camera and a light and a black background. There were three people in my group. We put the camera in front of the person getting the pictures taken of them, shut off all the lights, closed the blinds, and adjusted the shutter speed to take less light in. The person holding the light had to check with the photographer to make sure they were not creating a shadow. The light holder also made sure they were shining the light on the person and not the background, so the picture didn’t look like a really bad night photo from an iPhone. The person getting the picture taken of them was in charge of making scary and/or weird poses and faces. Using one big bright light worked really well and using two small flashlights from two iPhone’s did not work at all. In the end it was a lot of fun and I would probably do it again. You can see the rest of my photo’s here.
Portraits
I changed the ISO and shutter speed really too slow to make the background all black. I also shined a light at the the side of the person to take out the shadows. Making the background endless worked, but the colors on the person ended up weird. Click here for more.
Dark Portraits
In this project I had to take a photo using the lowest ISO to make an infinite Black background behind and person. The thing that worked the most for me was the pose of the person and having the light be in the perfect spot. The thing that didn’t work was having the light be to bright or to close or to far, etc… You can find the rest of my photos here.
