Journal Notes: Ch.5 (pg. 114-125)

Portraits

Steps to shooting a Formal Portraits:

1. place the background to the photograph close to the wall
2. place the lighting (45 degrees to the right of the subject)
3. set the camera directly in front of the subject (6-8 feet away)
   

Camera Settings:

• shoot with a wide open aperture to make the background out of focus and increases shutter speed
• zoom lenses try f/3.5 of f/4.5 to keep he subject in focus

Lighting For Formal Portraits:

• Indoors
• place one light at 45 degree angle on the side of the subject
• use a reflector on the other side of the subject 
• Outdoors
• direct sunlight isn't the best lighting
• shoot in open shade
• include the reflector must be 3-4 feet from the subject 

Candid Portrait:

• capture a person going about everyday life and activities
• don't pose your subject
• background gives context and meaning 
• facial expressions
• action shots 1/250 shutter speed

The Environmental Portrait:

• uses a subject's surrounding to help tell that persons story 
• formal and photojournalism
• may be posed
• wide angle lenses are useful with f stops at f/5.6, f/8, f/11

The Self-Portrait:

• you become your own subject
• don't have to be revealing
• show who you are and something about yourself
• tell something about yourself
• Cindy Sherman
• New York artist
• created a career of self-portraits dressed in costumes and disguises

Class Notes:

• Good Lighting/ avoiding sunlight
• show the subject's personality/ Different moods
• camera 6-8ft. away/ faster shutter speed
• setting the subject/ dominant subject as emphasis
• 45 degree lighting
• triepod/ refelctor
• Composition/ Framing/ Clarity/ Value Range