- faces show the world who we are
- demonstrate similarities and differences between the subject and viewer
- Gaspard-Félix Tournachon(1820-1910)
- first great portrait photographer
- started in France in 1853
- Used soft lighting and plain dark backgrounds
- August Sander(Germany, 1876-1964)
- created the 1st environmental portraits
- showed the settings of his subjects lives and works
- value is an important design element
- refers to the range of light and dark areas
- textures & shapes become more or less visible as values change
- values also bring emotional content to a photograph
- Balance and rule of thirds are important considerations
- Shape
- can be organic with flowing curves and irregular outlines
- can also be geometric
- eyes are immediately drawn in the picture
- Form
- when a shape becomes three-dimensional
- the photographer must gain the subjects trust and cooperation
- good portrait depends on building a relationship w/ subject
- large format cameras (4x5 view cameras or even larger)
- have the most detail
- candid and environmental portraits
- 35mm cameras
- Film speeds
- Slow Films (50 to 100 ISO)
- particles of silver for black and white films are fine grained and small in these slow films
- Fast Films (400 to 3200 ISO)
- more sensitive to light and suited to candid and environmental portraits
Equipment Choices: Lenses for Portraits
- 100mm lens gives you the most flattering image for a portrait
- Three Items making portraits easy and successful
- Tripod = 3 legged medal stand to mount your camera
- Cable Release = flexible wire that lets you trip the shutter w/o touching the camera
- Reflector = anything reflecting light into shadows for a three-dimensional portrait
- the simplest portrait style
- emphasize the person and nothing else
- Victorian photographer
- started at 43 years old
- children moved away and husband gone a lot left her to picking up a camera
- completely self taught
- one of the first people to approach photography as an art
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