Profetional Portraits (114-125)

Shoot a Formal Portrait
• Prepare what you need
o Place that background for the photograph close to a wall
o Place the light about 45 degrees to the right side of the subject
o Set the camera directly in front of the subject anywhere from 6 to 10 feet away
 Camera settings
o Photography a formal portrait it is a good idea to shoot with a wide open aperture to make the background out of focus.
Lighting for Formal Portraits
 Indoors
o Single-source indoor lighting set- up
 Place one light at approximately a 45-degree angle on one side or the other of your subject
 Use reflector (while cardboard) on opposite side of the subject from the light
 Outdoors
o Direct sunlight is not the best lighting for portraits
 Can be too harsh
 Can cause your subject to look uncomfortable and squint
o Try shooting in open shade like a shadow of a building or tree
 Avoid deep shade
o Include blue sky but not direct sunlight
o Cloudy days are great for photography
 Lighting is very flattering for portraits
Candid Portraits
• Candid shoots
o Action shoots so close faster shutter speed like 1/250 and higher that will freeze the action
o Use flash
 Built in have about 10 feet
 Get close
The Environmental Portrait
• Environmental portrait
o Uses a subject surroundings to help tell that persons story
o Combination of a formal portrait and photo journalism
o Show subjects life as well as face
 Camera Settings
o Wide-angle lenses especially for indoors

Action Notes (140-149)

Flashes for Action Photography
• Electronic flashes are a good way to stop or freeze action
• Harold Edgerton used one to freeze the kind of subjects he photographed
• Most cameras made since 1980s are designed for use with an automatic flash called Through the Lens (TTL), flash
• Flash does not go on when there is enough light exposure to the camera
• Older manual cameras use manual flashed with dial on the back that lets you set the ISO of the film you’re using
• Far away subjects
o Wide-open f-stop
• Close subjects
o Stopped-down f-stop
• Drawback in using a flash to stop action is the flash’s range
• Built in flashes are only effective up to about 10 feet
Camera Support
• Action photography consider using a tripod
• Monopod
o One tripod leg that mounts the camera up and down movements
o Many sports photography use monopod
Freezing the Action
• Freez action
o To capture the moving subject as a stationary object with no blurring
 Done by using a fast shutter speed with a fast film
• Faster shutter speed=sharper image
• Stopping action use faster ISO film
• Photography inside
o Faster film or higher ISO setting on digital camera
• Visual noise
o Looks like red, green, blue speaks in the image
o Makes image look grainy and coarse
o Higher ISO more visual noise
Blurring the Subject
• Blurring Subject
o Use slow shutter speed without moving the camera
 Also called subject motion blur
o Longer shutter is open more movement is caught
o Use slow shutter speed in sun light
Types of Blur
1. Camera motion blur
2. Subject motion blur
3. Out-of-focus blur
4. Depth-of-field blur
Panning
• When using slower shutter speeds, the subject can become so blurred that it is unrecognizable
• Panning
o Using a slower shutter speed while moving the camera to follow the subject
• Printing
o 35mm are to small
o 8x10 are perfect

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Portraits

Portrait Notes (102-113)

Portraits
• People are most popular subject for photography.
Early Portrait Photography
• Painting was used for portraits at first
• Gaspard-Felix Tournachon (1820-1910)
o The first great portrait photographwe started in France in 1853
 Used “Nadar” on photos so people won’t steal the photos (pseudonym)
 Used soft lighting and plain, dark backgrounds
 “speaking likeness”
• Portraits that revealed his subject personally.
• August Sander (Germany, 1876-1964)
o Created some of the first environmental portraits
Creating Portrait Photos
Thinking Artistically
• Textures and shapes become more or less visible as the value changes
• You can use light and dark values to emphasize certain aspects of your subject
Working with People
• Photographer and the person has to work together, gain trust, and be comfortable around each other
• A successful portrait photographer learns to become comfortable in front of people and interact with them
• Talk to your subject (person) to make them feel at home and at ease.
Camera Formats
• Want to balance between having enough detail and being able to respond quickly to your subject
• Many professional portrait photographers go with:
o Medium format camera because of their bigger negatives and their ease and speed of operation.
Film Choices for Portraits
Film Speed
• Slow Films (50 to 100 ISO)
o The particles of silver for black and white films, or dye for color films, are fine-grained and small in these slow films.
• Fast Films (400 to 3200 ISO)
o These faster films are more sensitive to light and are ideally suited to available-light photography, like candid and environmental portraits
Black and White or Color?
• Black and White
o Focus the viewers attention on the subject
o Eliminate certain distracting elements
 Bright colors in the background or in subject’s clothing
o Can have a formal and more serious look
• Color
o Can carry feelings and impressions with them
o Warm colors
 Reds, oranges, and yellows
 Set a definite mood of energetic intensity
o Cool Colors
 Blues and greens
 Very different feeling to them one that is restful and calm
o Consider the mood you are trying to create in the image and carefully choose the type of film to use
Equipment choices: Lenses for Portraits
• 24 mm
o Too close up to subject
• 50 mm
o Shows faces less round and broad
• 100 mm
o Most flattering to image
Camera Accessories
• Tripod
o Three-legged metal stand on which you can mount your camera
• Cable Release
o A flexible wire one end of which attaches to the cameras shutter release
o Lets you trip the shutter without touching and jarring the camera
o Guarantee super-sharp results, as long as your subject isn’t moving
• Reflector
o Anything that will reflect light into shadows to lighten them for a flattering and three-dimensional portrait
The Formal Portrait
• Formal portrait
o Simplest portrait and should emphazise the person and nothing else.
 Indoors
o Place person on one color background
 Outdoors
o Place person in front of sky/ ocean or lake, hedge or leafed-out tree
o Make sure you don’t put sun in picture or it will throw off the cameras meter and torn the person into a dark silhouette.

Photo Essay: Family Event

The first photo was taken outside in my backyard while my dad was preparing food for my family.
The second photo is of my dad cooking the fish! YUMMY!
The third photo is of my two uncles saying hi after a long time of not seeing each other.
The fourth photo is of my two cousins praying before dinner.
The filth photo is of all the food my family prepared for everyone.
The sixth photo is my grandma and she is telling everyone to stop singing happy birthday to her because it is not close to her birthday.
The seventh photo is of my grandma cleaning after the family gathering.
The eighth photo is some of the dishes from the party.