Also, the photographer I looked at was Olivia Rose she is leading a new wave of photographic talent who are championing personally and character via the unknown, the unique and the ugly. Olivia is not only confronting the industry with the idea of imperfection but also with issues of racism, and most of the pictures she took are portraits and the beauty in portrait photography is in capturing a person's personality, by looking at her work you can see that she photograph famous personalities as well as family and friends, her work is compelling, she is able to capture the person facial expression clearly .
Furthermore, after I did all my research it was time for me to try it out for myself, the research helped me because it gave me an idea on what to do for photography but I wasn't ready because never taken pictures before with photography camera, so the genre decided to choose as a practice run was portrait, the reason I chose it was because portraiture is the most explored genre in photography. Today anybody with a smartphone practices portrait photography but for me, I was still bad at taking photos with a smartphone, so using a camera will be challenging for me. I went to the studio and learnt the basics, like using a backdrop, the backdrop is the background for your photography and you have to make sure the model or object you are using 5-6ft away from the backdrop, along with my teacher Scott tort me different lighting for photography, for example, infinity lighting and high key photography is bright but there aren't that many shadows and a white backdrop portray makes everything white. There are four lights in the studio, the two cone light are called flash reflectors, they just need to light the backdrop. they need to be set up on 4-6 which are the highest settings, the purpose of it is to light the whole backdrop white.
https://elliottmatinda319.blogspot.com/2018/11/lowkey-lighting.html
Model light would be on your model, this would add lighting to the setup if i is too bright I will have to set that backdrop like lower to create the best lighting for my photos. The backlight brings my models forward, shadows, silverside of a reflector, gives me more contrast so it makes the shadows darker. silver would be used for black and white pictures generally. The Gold side of the reflector gives you a warmth colour and this would be used for coloured images generally, also the camera settings I learnt is ISO will make a photo brighter or darker, as you increase your ISO, the photo will become brighter as well as white balance the colour balance on a digital camera, photographers use it to get colours in your images as accurate as possible.
About the camera:
https://elliottmatinda319.blogspot.com/2018/11/nikon-front-camera.html
https://elliottmatinda319.blogspot.com/2018/11/nikon-camera.html
Practical work
These are pictures I've taken in the studio, this was my first time using a photography camera, as you can see this is a high key photograph, made the backdrop so the audience will be able to see my models clearly for me, these are my best picture I took for the first time using a photography camera and what worked for the first one I was able to capture their facial expression perfectly , however there are bits of their body that been cut out because didn't get their whole body in the frame , would of made it looked way better. The second picture I took was successful because I was able to get my whole model in the frame as well as the picture looking clear and compelling and even though he is wearing a hoodie, I was still able to capture his facial expression. The last picture of all my models in the frame, what worked was you are able to see their poses as well as their facial expression, what didn't is that could have made the models at the back step forward a bit and you will be able to see their face more.
the pictures I've taken are landscape and decided to take it as landscape because it allows the audience to see the models' facial expression more, the first model with the durag, the picture was successful because I was able to capture his face really well, however his elbow was cut out, should have retaken the picture and just ask my model to move to the side a bit but the photo came out looking well, the goal was to show off the blue durag he is wearing, I think done well. The second photo came out looking perfect, as you can see its landscape and you are able to see the top half of the model as well as everything is in the frame, able to see the model facial expression as she starts to show off her looks.
the first picture of my model sitting on the chairs what went well was the pose and being able to see his facial expression but his foot was cut out, that made it look unprofessional ,second picture of him with the durag looks well because you are able to see everything within the frame and you can see how my model is expressing himself with the durag. The last picture of my model standing up, everything went well, you can see him in the frame, and you can clearly see his clothing and that was the goal.
On the camera change the settings to monochrome, to make the pictures look black and white, as you can see came out well, the first picture is a portrait, and the model is showing off her looks as well as her hair, she is expressing herself. The landscape photo of my model wearing glasses, I did it as landscape because it just looks made look better and especially how my model looking away from the camera and you can see a reflection on the lenses, it just made it look cool for me.
This is when I tried a silhouette, and it came out looking well, but the first one could have done it way better by taking the picture again of the male model and just ask move to centre bit more.
put the link there explaining what a silhouette and softbox is.
https://elliottmatinda319.blogspot.com/search?q=silhouette
Main project
https://elliottmatinda319.blogspot.com/2019/02/photography-main-project.html
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