Ethnic Portrait Assignment

senior x

location

my first location i shot was in between class rooms. i shot there because its not a typical place that many people go to shoot and i thought it looked really interesting because my model was at the end of one building but looks likes shes at the beginning of another. my second location was interesting to me because i had never shot there before and im never really around that area so it was different for me. i changed it to black and white because it makes the darkness and the light really pop! and i had my model turn her back on me on purpose so when people looked at it, it would make them wonder how her face looked. my third picture i wasnt planning on keeping it at all because i had taken it on accident. but i really like how all that you see is my models face and then a building in the backround. i like how the square thats cut out in the building matches up with his eyes. in conclusion i liked my locations but i also think that i couldve looked around more for maybe better places and also maybe have placed my models in different places in my photos.

senior ex

environmental --> tree huggger

for this assignment we had to get someone in their enviornment and shoot them. i chose steph because shes really hippie like. and i wanted to show that and make my point. the reason i put her in front of a tree was because i wanted her to seem very nature friendly, which was why i named this piece "tree hugger" . by having her arm in front of the the tree and her leg also it looks like shes trying to save it from someone knocking it down. thats how i think of 'hippies'.

test shot --> emotion in motion

my test shot happened on accident . i wasnt sure what it was i wanted to do. when i saw how the shots came out i really liked how it looked. i called it emotion in motion because it looks like everyone is going there own way but very still at the same time with only one person looking straight at the camera with a certain emotion. she looks very serious but in a way sad. i really liked how it ended up coming out as my test shot.