Photographing the Drama Class

STUDENTS: This week you will be contacting actors from East Nic's Drama Troupe and photographing them in a variety of scenes and poses, both fromal and informal. For this assignment you will need to study the online article, http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-take-portraits-19-portrait-photography-tutorials. Pick a minimum of five tips from this article to emulate. Be sure to take a lot of photos. You will get lucky with a handful of magical exposures. Also, do not forget to get candid shots. Consider interesting lighting, angle of view, range of emotions, etc. Have fun!

Portrait Tips

STUDENTS: Check out this website for a bunch of tips on taking portraits. Have fun!
http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-take-portraits-19-portrait-photography-tutorials

In My hand

Hello, and this is my post on my photographing people project. For this project I chose to do a silhouette. I will now say from personal experience that you must have a good backlight for a silhouette as well as a very sharp image meaning a small apereture. The best backlight in my opinion is the setting sun. This light can be difficult to acquire if the weather does not participate as it did fore me, so have patience and plan ahead for a photo like this. Also bring a tripod for stability. A second person is a must to ensure that you get the angle, proper back light, and posture you want. I would advise that you use a low shutter speed and high apereture setting for large depth of field. This particular photo was emulated from a woman holding the sun in her hand at the beach. This photo was taken on Saturday, January 10th. It is of my mother posing like she is holding the sun creating an optical allusion that she actually is. I cut off her feet to focus more on her face
and cut out distractions.

Settings:
Photographer: Robert DeValentine
Subject: Mother
Purpose: assignment
Camera: Cannon Rebel EOS X
Shutter:
Top-bottom: 1/1250, 1/1000, 1/1600, 1/2000 of second.
Apereture: setting 9
Tripod: yes
Manual: yes
Flash: no
ISO: 200

Notes: I am encountering trouble putting up my example and will post as soon as possible. Please notify me if I am missing or you would like more information. Please post grammar errors so corrections will be made. Also I could not get a good focus on my subject I truly recommend a high aperature.

Dramatic Lighting

we accomplished this photo with one light to the right of the subject this creates a sharp shadow on the other side of the photo. the background is used up with a black queen sheet to get the black in the back. i used a f/8 at 1/8 exposure at a ISO of 320. the only thing i would have to do would decrees the ISO so the noise is not so noticeable. to add to this if you wanted a less intense shadow you can place a light to the left of the subject to see more of the face

Foramal Portraiture



This is the photo I tried to immitate



This ended up being the best photo that I took.
This photo was taken January 9th 2011 9:14  . It is a formal portraiture . The setting of this photo was Portrait. There was no flash  1/8 F 3.6 .  I used incandescent lighting .
    This portrait is of my mom  sitting on a toter in front of  a wall in the dining room   


For this photo I just used the same directions from the packet that was given in class.

Photographing People

Character Driven Photography- Ty Shill and Devon Johnson
Our assignment was to take a picture of someone's face and use it to describe the person or tell a story. I chose to use my grandpa as the subject. One picture is inside like in the packet, and the second is of him during work (he is a farmer). We couldn't find any online examples




This picture was taken with inside lighting (light bulb) it was late at night so i used the night portrait setting on my camera. This was the overexposed picture at +1.
f2.8, ISO- 80, 1/160. I was about 5 feet away from the subject.

This picture was taken at about 1 PM with a little sunlight, but it was cloudy. I stood about 6 feet away and focused in with a focal lenght of about 300mm (38mm equivalent)

ISO-80, f3.2, 1/8

Self Family Portraits

example