I decided to include a series of lifestyle portraits in my final project. This concept appeals to me because I want to capture every moment, such as life situations. Lifestyle portraiture is all about telling a story and capturing the subject in their natural environment. The main goal is to make the person feel comfortable in their own environment so I’ve been planning a trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the past several days. It’s cherry blossom season, and the cherry blossoms have begun to bloom, so I’m going to take my family to explore the garden this week. I’m planning to use a close-up shot and a medium shot for this concept, among other techniques I’d like to try on this trip. On the other hand, my family is excited to go to the trip and will have the moment to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the cherry blossom festival. Some of the elements that I’ve been planning is to make the photography more elegant and beautiful. I’ll try and experiment with the aperture and the ISO and see if the photos can become detailed with the concept.
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Take portraits of your classmates in outdoor diffused light using reflectors and fill flash.
Start with using a reflector. Have your model stand with the sun to their back. use the reflector to reflect light back into their face. Hold the reflector higher for a more pleasing result.
Then try fill flash. You don’t want to cast any shadows on the face just brighten it.
Use your widest aperture. You may need to use a fast shutter speed to compensate. When using flash, make sure to set it to High Speed Sync (HSS) in order to be able to use a shutter speed faster than the sync speed.
Put your 20 best outdoor portraits in an album on Flickr and send the best two to the class group.
Review:
Photographer: Alilah Townsend 
Photographer: Nadav Kander 
MANHATTAN, NEW YORK – JANUARY 13, 2019: Portrait of actress Natasha Lyonne. Credit: Celeste Sloman for The New York Times 
Photographer: Coco Rae 
Photographer: Nadav Kander 
Photographer: Timothy Greenfield-Saunders
Considerations for any portrait:
Use a vertical orientation.
Focus on the model’s eyes.
Watch the background for distracting things behind the model’s head.
Considerations for outdoor portraits
Work with the model in shade or place the model with the sun BEHIND their head.
use a reflector to add light to their face.
Do not use direct sunlight on the model’s face.
Resource
Using Fill flash
Ambient Light-the existing light that you cannot control
Fill Flash-brightens shadows
Built-in flash-part of the camera and throws light about 6 to 10 feet
External flash-added to the camera on the hot shoe and can throw light 15 to 20 feet
E–TTL (Evaluative-Through The Lens) is a Canon EOS flash exposure system that uses a brief pre-flash before the main flash in order to obtain a more correct exposure.
Use M or manual.
1/1 is full power. for fill flash, try 1/16 and adjust from there.
Use Zoom to spread or focus the light. Wide angle numbers (smaller numbers) spread the light. Higher numbers focus the light.
High speed sync-allows the camera to be set at shutter speeds higher than the camera sync speed
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Lab
Homework
Submit to the CUNY Photo Challenge by April 28th! 1 pt of extra credit if you send me the screen shot of your submission.
For the final project, the overall theme is neighborhood portraits. The story that I want to tell the viewers is New York City can be a beautiful place even though it’s a busy city and also what it is like to spend the day in New York City SoHo. I want to show viewers what New York City is like during the daytime and nighttime. The location I will be shooting at is SoHo New York City also known as South of Houston Street. SoHo has very interesting architecture and has become a high-end neighborhood with a lot of shops. This neighborhood is known for high-end boutiques and cast-iron architecture. The subject matter in my photos is people outside and building structures and streets in the neighborhood. For example, people eating, walking around, and shopping. Capturing people and cars in motion with the unique architecture in SoHo. These photos will be taken during the daytime and nighttime when there will be many people walking around and shopping or walking around. For the nighttime pictures, I will be capturing the nightlife and what it is like at night in the neighborhood. I chose this theme to show what it is like in SoHo and where I grew up shopping. Showing the interesting building structures and streets. Some techniques that I will be applying to my photos are the different angles of view, depth of field, motion shots, and other photographic compositions. Also, applying the techniques on how to use a camera that I learned in class. To conclude, this is what and when I will be shooting for my project and where I will be shooting for my project. Revealing what SoHo is like to viewers that may have never been to that neighborhood. When doing this project I will be using different techniques and applying them to my project.
Link to milanote(mood board):
For the final project I have decided to take photos of the greenery and flowers of Central Park. There are many statues and other landmarks that represent Central Park as well as a variety of forest and trees. Although this will be my main focus, I will also try to capture some people walking in the park. I want to show the different trails one can take and how different it is compared to the city we live in. I will mostly shoot in the daytime but would also like to see if I can take some shots at night as not many people visit during the nighttime. For the nighttime pictures I plan to shoot where there is more landscape in order to capture the light of the lamp posts. I will use different techniques such as depth of field and composition. I want to do a variety of shots that go from a worm’s eye view to a long shot. I want to mostly do closeups with flowers and longshots on landscapes. For the final pieces that I choose I hope to capture the landmarks of central park as well as show some sights that people might not know are in central park. Seeing how it is a giant park I will mostly focus on the south and north of the park and shoot around the areas that have the most greenery.
Milanote: https://app.milanote.com/1Ml9zw1aGFHx7U?p=JvBV7p5OxVT
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