Post on 20-Mar-2016
description
Face To Face
Photography Project
Start date: Thursday 10 November 2011
Final deadline: Thursday 15 December
6 week project
Task: Self/Other
• Research 1 historical portrait photographer and 1 contemporary portrait
Photographer
• In your own work you can either photograph yourself or a friend.
Produce a mind map of all your ideas - write about facial expression / clothing /
props / lighting and what message you want to communicate. For this task you can
also sketches your ideas ( if you do this you will need to photograph/
photocopy your sketches and add this to your Powerpoint presentation).
• Plan and prepare a studio photo shoot - state the date and time you have
booked the studio for / what props and/or models you plan to use and any
Equipment (lights/tripod etc) you plan to use.
• Take a set of professional studio portraits.
• Using Photoshop edit between 6 and 8 photographs
• Evaluate your own photographs
When planning your portrait photographs consider the following…
Facial expressions and what message(s) you want to communicate
Camilla Akrans
Kate
Irvin Penn
Clothing / props / make-up and what message(s) you want to communicate
Richard Avedon
Sean Penn
QuickTime™ and aBMP decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Composition and viewpoint
The background in the studio. Will you have a plain white or black
back drop or will you use a different background to compliment the model?
Lighting and how you might illuminate or hide parts of the face