Portraits

Portraiture is a very important kind of photography! Though with so many 'selfies', sometimes we forget how important it can be! In this final lesson, we will learn several different kinds of portraits, and you will get to practice taking them before our final project!

Video 1: How to Take Great Portraits (video)

Video 2: How Can a Portrait Show Different Perspectives? (video)

Video 3: Portrait Photography of Things (video) start @ 2:32

Video 4: Photographing Before and After Photographs (video) **

PORTRAIT PROJECT:

Using one of the above videos as inspiration, create your own (3) portraits of 3 people.

Each portrait should be a different type: Emotions/Character, Things, Before/After

TYPES: Portrait 1: Subject (person) showing emotion in some way (video 2);

Show how they are feeling WITHOUT being obvious; this one is hard!

You will need to direct your subject to get the best shots.

Lighting, framing, and environment are important!

Person 2: Same person & their stuff with different angles of photographs (video 3)

1 person, specified environment, their possessions that tell about them

Person 3: Before and After (video 4)

1 shot before & 1 shot immediately following your 'phrase'

Your phrase should incite some kind of emotional response from subject;

YES: "You're beautiful" vs. NO: "I like nachos"

Consider: Framing, Composition, etc. to tell the viewer about your subject.

What is the environment you will be taking your photographs in?

Take your time to set up your environment.

** These need to tell the viewer about your subject. **

How can you visually show what this person is like?

Step 1: Create a new page on your website called, "Portraits"

Step 2: Write out several ideas you are thinking about for your portraits

WHO are you going to photograph?

WHAT kind of portrait will it be?

WHAT will the environment be?

HOW will you compose and frame your photo to be successful?

Step 3: Conduct some online research. Look up portraits of the different characters/emotions that you are wanting to capture. Make mental notes about their expressions, body posture, and photo composition.

Step 4:

Fill out Portrait worksheet in the Digital Photo basket & glue into your sketchbook; I need to check this before you take photos

Step 5: Bring the worksheet to me for sign off

Step 6: Take your photos

- Make sure that your photos are CLEAR

- Make sure that your photos have a good COMPOSITION

- Make sure that your photos do not have unnecessary negative SPACE

- Make sure that your photos MAKE SENSE

Step 7: Put all portrait images onto your desktop and rename them: LASTNAME_PORTRAITTYPE#

Step 8: Upload the JPEGs to your webpage

Step 9: Underneath EACH portrait GROUP, explain what the point of the portrait was. Make a mini-artist statement for each group.

Have me check this off!

Step 10: Upload the JPEGs to Google Classroom

Step 11: Fill out a rubric and turn in