Portrait

3 most important rules of portraits

• Create a second point of interest by changing the eye contact to something else besides the viewer. 
• Ex: woman looking at a ball...

• Toying with the lighting in each picture will create a stunning effect and will nab the viewers attention.
• Ex: silhouetting the subject of the picture

• Take a series of shots in order to take many pictures to choose from.
• Ex: Particularly for children or active subjects that do not stay still.

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2 Environmental Portraits.

These Pictures are great representations of environmental portraits because of the fact that they are people who had their picture taken in their natural environment. For example, the lumberjack is in front of the trees he cut, and an engineer in front of all of his tools. I like the fact that both of these pictures are in a natural kind of hue, not entirely black and white, but with a shade of brown in there as well.

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2 Casual Portraits.

These pictures present to me a casual feel. To me, it's not posed intentionally and it's not of anything extremely spectacular, these are just some beautiful pictures of some young women. The reason I picked these photos was the fact that I liked their composition and the background played nicely in emphasizing the subject of both photos.

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2 Formal Portraits

These portraits make me feel that the subjects in the photos have authority because they are wearing suits. All of the portraits look uniform and very serious. The reason I chose these two photos is because they appealed to me.

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2 Self Portraits

Self portraits are typically very artistic, and they try to tell something about the subject. These two portraits are rather interesting because of their creativity and the contrast of color and shade. I found it interesting that the entire background is black and white, while only a small part is colored.

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I personally liked the Glamour Magazine cover for 2015 because it incorporates the use of a casual portrait to nab the readers attention. I would possibly be able to recreate this cover by having a person stand in front of a monochrome background while I take a close up picture.

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If I plan on taking a portrait picture, I must be aware of their composition. I would like to take a picture of my brother at his computer in order to create an environmental photo. Furthermore, I would like to incorporate balance and the rule of thirds into that photo to make it even better.