New Photo Taking Assignment! DUE MONDAY!!

If you don't have photos on Monday you will be completing an alternative writing assignment. So, write yourself a note, text yourself, fill your car with post-it notes, set an alarm on your phone....whatever it takes to make sure you have photos AND they are present with you in some way on Monday!!!!



ok, enough of that.



What is a portrait????

http://www.freedictionary.com/ says it is "A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example."



You will be taking lots and lots of portraits for the next assignment.


CHECK OUT ALL OF THESE WEBSITEs!

(your photos will be graded based on how well you used the information found on these sites)

1. Click Here---> 10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits


2. Then Click Here ----> Part 2


3. Last, Click Here---> Digital ShortCourses-Using Lights in Portraits (Be sure you click on all Animations.)

Your assignment is to take Portraits----lots and lots and lots of Portraits. Take Portraits until your friends want to strangle you!!

You need to take a bizillion portraits!! I can't stress that enough.

It will take a LOT of bad portraits to get ONE good one.

Turn off the flash. Flash makes for some yucky, unattractive portraits.

The key to getting some great portraits is to take A LOT...and to CHANGE EVERYTHING and CANGE IT A LOT!

• Photo outdoors.
• Photo indoors (during the day while their is still natural light)
• Use lots of light!
• Try taking some photos with only one bright light on the subject
• If you photo in LOW LIGHT---remember to brace the camera, or set it on something and use the timer function (or use a tripod) so that you avoid camera shake!!
• Experiment with your lighting---take the lampshade off of a lamp, use a piece of white cardboard for a reflector.
  
• Change Camera angles-- look up, look down
  
• Change format -portrait vs. landscape or hold the camera on an angle


• Change your perspective....stand on a stool, lay on the floor


• Take formal portraits & candid portraits.


• Use different backgrounds


• experiment with PROPS


• Try Macro Mode and Landscape Mode


• Fill the whole frame with the person's face.


• Make the person look at the camera---make them look away from the camera


• Take some candid shots (www.meriam-webster.com says that candid means "relating to or being photography of subjects acting naturally or spontaneously without being posed")


• Above all, BE CREATIVE!! This is an art class.

I'm not going to give you a minimum number of portraits to take.... But take as many photos as you can..... trust me, you'll need to take a lot. FILL UP YOUR MEMORY STICK!

~PHOTOS ARE DUE MONDAY~