Project 30: Portrait Photography

 You will be using the RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES we have been practicing to edit your own PORTRAIT photographs. 


Thinking back to the STILL LIFE project, and how important composition was in creating your scenes, it is just as important in portrait photography you're just moving a model instead of objects. Referencing back to your composition cheat sheet what compositional guideline would you say best fits the image above?


Portrait photography has been around since the early 1800s and is one of the most common forms of photography. The first portrait photograph ever taken was by Robert Cornelius using a CAMERA OBSCURA. A camera obscura is a dark space with a small hole that projects an inverted image of the outside world. You can still create images like this today! It works the same way a camera does by only letting in a certain amount of light, but instead of a camera body, it is an entire room. 




Examples:

Word Bank:
Rule of Thirds
Leading Lines
Negative Space





You need to use the retouching techniques you have learned once you have taken your images. If you are just doing standard head shots it will just be blemish removal and maybe some color correction. If you are doing more elaborate portraits, it may be removing distracting objects or even other people.

UNEDITED:

EDITED:




INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS PROJECT:

  • YOUR CAMERA SETTINGS will be different depending on where you take your portraits. You all should know how to change the settings on your camera by now so just use your best judgment for this.
  • Grab a camera, a friend, and the composition cheat sheet, and go out and take portrait photographs.
  • You may take them in the classroom or outside whatever you like. 
  • Find your best photograph and use the RETOUCHING TECHNIQUES to edit that photograph. 
  • Upload the EDITED and UNEDITED version of that photograph to Teams.