Professor Michals

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Week 11 – Portraits III

Review:

3-point Lighting

– standard lighting for portraits, video and film

Main light-is the brightest light and creates the shadows

Fill light-brightens the shadows

Background light-creates separation between the subject and the background. This light can be aimed at the background or it can be aimed at the subject. If the later, it would be called a hair light. If accenting the edge of the face or shoulders, this light would be called a rim light or a kicker.

Natural vs idealized

Compare the work of Dawoud Bey with Peter Hurley

Lab

Working within a Style

Homework

Using Brand Style

Final Project

Lab: Week 11 – Photographic Style

What are the stylistic differences between the way that people are photographed for each of these three magazines?

Create a cover image for each publication that fits with the existing style standards of that magazine.

Put at least 30 of the photos on Flickr. Select the best for each magazine and send it to the class group. Make sure to clearly label the image with the magazine.

The Final Project

The goal of the Final Project is to create a series of 10 related images on a theme of your choice.

Final Project Statement– Post to OpenLab by May 3, 12 noon

Topic: What is it about? What genre of photography interests you and would you like to explore: street photography, food photography, portrait photography

What purpose will it serve in your portfolio? Do you want to highlight your

conceptual thinking, your design sense, your lighting skills

Subject Matter: Literally what will you shoot?

Style: What will it look like? How will you use photographic style to communicate

emotion and point of view? Find at least one example and include at least one

image with your description.

Lighting: how will you light your project? This may be daylight.

Create a mood board for your project-use Instagram or an internet search to find 6 photographs by 6 different photographers that look like what you want the photos in your final project to look like. Use Milanote and include the link to the moodboard in your openlab post.

Due Week 13, May 10, Shoot 1 – minimum of 30 images in an album on Flickr and mood board

Due Week 14, May 17, Shoot 2 – minimum of 30 images in an album on Flickr

Due Week 15, May 24: Shoot 3 – minimum of 30 images in an album on Flickr

  • final 10 images selected, adjusted in Lightroom, and posted to an album on Flickr
  • a presentation to the class of the final images.

Examples:

Jennifer Humala

IMG_0251

Ramelvis De La Cruz

IMG_8041_Construction_Worker

Rany Selem

DSC_7623

HW 8: Photographic Style

4 pts. Due May 3, 2022.

Select a national magazine, TV Show or movie that uses portraits in its advertising. Find three to four examples that use a similar style. Put them in a gallery block on OpenLab and answer the following questions to describe the photographic style that is used for that brand.

Identify the lighting style used including the angle of view, lighting pattern: Rembrandt, split, butterfly light, broad or shot light. How much fill is used to brighten the shadows? How is a background light used to separate the subject from the background? What is the palette? How tight is the framing?What is the angle of view?

Then create your own photo for that entity following the style guides.

Put at least 20 photos in an album on Flickr from your shoot.

Send your single best to the group.

Category: HW 8 – Photographic Style

Examples:

Crossbones

Mary Poppins

Game of Thrones

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Blackish

Narcos

Lab: Week 10 – Portraits with background lights

Each of the fours stations uses a main light, a fill light even if that is a reflector, and a background light.

Each station uses the background light in a different way.

  1. Clamshell lighting-the background lights make the background white
  2. Three point lighting with the background light pointing at the background to create a glow around the shoulders
  3. Three point lighting with the background light used as a hair light or a kicker
  4. short light with the background light pointed at the subject from behind to create a rim light.

Photograph your classmates at each of the stations in the class. Post your 20 best to an album on Flickr including your best example of each and send your two best portraits to the class group.

Make sure you have at least one good example of:

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