Portraiture

I always feel weird asking people If I can take their photo, and me personally I hate having my photo taken and have a weird self consciousness of it. But for this project I wanted to get over the awkwardness of photographing myself so I became my own model. For my first photo I found a nice outdoor setting that had a bench overlooking the lake. I used to be a more outdoorsy person and I'm challenging myself to be outside and explore more so I felt that being in this park was a good first step. The second photo for the studio portrait I tried to be a little more creative and wanted the photo to be original so I used my Firefighting gear tell the story. I made the photo black and white with increased contrast. I felt it added more to the photo and made it stand out stronger with a bigger statement with it being black and white.

I deceided to re work my portraiture photos. I decided to make this project a self portraiture. I've never liked taking photos of myself and I wanted to get out of my own "bubble" and comfort zone and chose to be my own model. For my re-work I wanted to flip the edits of the photos. Originally the self portrait of myself in my Firefighting gear was black and white and the photo of me looking away on the bench was in color, so I swapped the edits. I really enjoyed how they turned out. I think the image of me in my Firefighting gear in color feels like an entirely different image. Adding the color I feel ads more of a relatable image then the black and white image. I can't exactly say why but when I compare the two that's how I feel. With the bench photo I really enjoyed the black and white edit more than the color one. I think with it being black and white with an increase vignette it forces the focus of the image even more on myself and draws the eyes to the subject(me) in comparison to the colored image where there's much more for your eye to wander and look at. Overall I'm glad with both of these re-works and new edits and I think each image has it's own identity and character.