Portraiture

Application

A portrait is an image that has captured someone doing something or captureing their emotions. The person in the picture can have their facial expresions saying one thing about themn the surroundings or the background sying another, which would change the way you look at the picture.

Richard Avedon

Diane Arbus

Walker Evans

Context

A portrait can be something you take on special occasion or it can be for everyday things such as an ID card or your Facebook profile picture, but with your profile picture you can change it to show the mood your in or even if you don't like it. Old portraits such as he ones above, you cannot change the message it's sending.

Techniques

The techniques used to take a portrait can be very complexed or it could be a simple snap shot. Some of the more complex portraits need techniques like Lighting and a Studio set up, but a snap shot portrait can just be a photographer walking through a park and and asking someone if they could take a portrait of them.

Photo Journalism

Application

Henri Cartier-Bresson boosted his career by taking the picture of the man leaping off the ladder. He used to find a place and just wait until the perfect moment to take the picture. Sometimes he would have to wait for hours and sometimes he won't even get the shot.

A Photo that definds Decisive Moment.

Context
Under the context section list and describe each of the contexts that we the audience consume this style of image. Context is the way the photographs are displayed for example fashion photographs are displayed in magazines as well as billboards. It is important when discussing this section that you mention important changes for each context through history.



Techniques

To me Photo Journalism started off in the 1930s when the Leica SLR camera came into production. The Leica enabled photographers to camture decisive moments in time such as the man jumping off a ladder and into a puddle.

The Leica camera was a pinacle moment in photographic history.

The Leica helpped make Photo Journalism.

Intro to photography!!

Hi I'm Jules. Photography to me is capturing something worth remembering or that makes you use your sense of imagination to describe what the image is and why the photographer chose to do it. I hope i gain good photography skills on the course so that I can take some amazing pictures like the ones below.
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Robert Capa:



Ansel Adams:
 




Heni Cartier Bresson: