Category Part One: People Aware
Exercise 7: Focal Length
It’s taken me a long time to get around to doing this exercise and this has been very frustrating! Work has been so busy that I just haven’t had time for anything else. Anyway, I finally got a chance to get around to it last weekend, but it took me a while to get back […]
Exercise 6: Review a Portrait Sequence
I’ve been looking forward to this exercise for a while and had planned to shoot it a couple of weeks ago, but everyone came down with the flu, so finding time and a healthy subject proved a little hard. Anyway, I finally shot it yesterday morning and really enjoyed it. As you’ll see, my daughter […]
Exercise 5: Eye contact and expression
More often than not in my portrait photography I’ve tried to encourage eye contact, but as I think about it, that’s not really through any personal preference. It’s more because eye contact in portraits seems to be generally considered the way to go. This exercise was the first time I’ve instructed someone to look […]
Exercise 4 : An Active Portrait
An area of portraiture that I’ve been interested in for a while is contextual portrait; where the photographer places the subject in the context of what he / she does for work or other activities. This obviously necessitates including the subject’s surroundings in the image, and so a wide angle lens is useful for this […]
Exercise 3: Experimenting with light
While I was studying TAOP, I remember that Part four: Light was rather long, but very interesting. It really showed me that different light and different times of day can have a huge impact on my images, and so I was looking forward to furthering that study with this exercise in P&P. This time, though, […]
Exercise 2: Tｈinking about location
Recently in my photography, I have been trying to think more and more about the role that the background plays in the image. Most of my portraits are mainly focusing on the face, and the framing is usually head and shoulders, but since starting this course I’ve done a lot of reading in various books, […]
EXERCISE 1: PORTRAIT–SCALE AND SETTING
One of the things that I found most interesting when reading the introduction to this course was the idea that the work on this course will be as much about social relationships as about photography. The idea of photographing people in various guises, such as people aware and people unaware, has made me very enthusiastic […]
My People and Place Learning Log 