Assignment #4 Portraits

This is my sister. She is looking right into a lamp, which hurt her eyes, but I really like this picture. It's memorable.

I like getting close on the face which kinda freaked my sister out when I touched her face with the camera but I like how the close ups turn out better then most full body shots.

So this picture was very underexposed and kind of blurry. I really liked it though and was sad that it wasn't properly exposed and focused. So I was playing with it and Slade liked it and it turned out like that.

I had a hard time making silhouettes but I like this one. I don't like that the background has so much stuff. I wish it was simpler but I still like this.

I think this is a little gray but I like the composition. The hand was very bright because a bunch of light was hitting right there but I burned it and it looks better. However, burning that much makes it very gray and kind of gross but I still like this. Not good enough for a print but good enough for a blog I think.

This was very dark when I was taking it so it was difficult to get it in focus and enough light. So, I just a flashlight. This didn't work great because you can see the bright spot where the flashlight was. I wish I had moved the flashlight around more so that the whole picture was lighter and that spot wasn't soo bright. But I do like what she's doing with her hands but still letting her eye see through.

So at first I was excited for this assignment but then when I thought about shooting I had difficulties. I couldn't find the right feel and stuff like that. But then after I reshot like 3 times I started to get the hang of it. Then when I shot with Hannah I got a lot of good ones. So now I love this assignment and am sad that its over. But thats ohkay. I liked this one a lot more than the last one so I'm hoping they just get better from here. I learned that simple backgrounds are really good because then you can just focus on whatever you are really taking the picture of. Black backgrounds are the best I think because if its white then you don't want it to be pure white so it ends up being gray just like every other color except black. The different types of light also make a huge difference. Most of these images had different light. You can tell that some had very bright light while others just had soft light. Bracketing is harder with people since they don't like to stay still, but it really helps. Also I really need to get a tripod because I used Hannah's and I loved it. Anyway I really liked this assignment and like most of my pictures.