Portrait Photography

We were set the task of creating some portraits, and after a couple of shots within the studio I felt that I preferred the more natural looking image. I also found that using the monochrome settings on the cameras can give a really good effect to the portrait. Below you can see some of the images I have taken. In each image I have tried to keep the backgrounds out of focus so all the attention is drawn to the subject. Also I have tried to capture a nature smiles and people at work. I find nature shots much better than a posed shot.

Local Winter Shots

These images are taken locally when we had the snow in Dec/Jan i tried to focus on nature and give a feel for the landscape.

Textures

We were sent out to get some images of textures so my partner and I tried to focus on man made materials we also looked at old and new items. But after I had taken the images I then starting taking images more suited to nature. After thinking about what we were going to do, we got outside and found it was easier as there are textures every where and we could get the image we needed. I used one of the college's Fuji film cameras but the other other i have used my Canon.

After talking the texture image I have though about the things the pictures can be used for. Firstly I have thought about just different images of texture and how they could be classed as art, but then I considered how the textures could be incorporated into one large project, such as creating a montage.

Lenses

Using different lenses allows you to get many different types of shot. For example you can use

A Standard Lens gives you the ability to shoot with the angle of about 50°. Also if using one of these lens it will give you a focal distance about the same as the image angle.

A Wide Angle Lens allows you to shoot with an angle of view wider than 60° abut this means your focal length shorter than when using a Standard Lens.

Fish Eye Lens means you can take a very wide angle shote which has a hemispherical shape to the shot. One of the main uses of the Fish Eye

is because of of is unique distorting effect it applies on objects.