Portrait Photography

Portrait Photography

After researching about portrait photography i found that there was 2 different main types of this photography, the first of this was posed photography this is usually done in a studio envrioment with usually a white background but this sometimes maybe another colour such as black or using a green screen so that any image can be put behind people. The other type is candid photography, this is were you use a longer lens and capture people doing there natural day to day thing, while this may sound boring it is surprising what people get up to when they think there not being watched.

I found this section perticaulary hard as nobody i really knew would model, because of this and also because i liked the natural style better i decided to focus on more candid shots but did try to get some out of studio . My first photo for this is one of the queens guards in london, every time i have been to london i have been amassed at these and how they manage to keep so still all day. To get this photo i had to go later on in the day due to them being a tourist hotspot and people having photos next to them. To get the shot i decided to take the shot about 10 meters away from the guard, this allowed me to get some of the background in . For this shot i also composed it so that the guard was in the centre of the frame, after taking the picture i edited it by cropping i to remove some of the foreground and also the colour splash effect to make the guard in full colour and the background black and white.

The next shot i have is a example of candid, to do this i was out of view of the man and then took a image while he was in flow of giving out his papers, after doing this i then asked him if he was ok with me taking the image of which he said was fine and was a regular occurrence. When i got back home to my desk i edited the image, i decided to follow the "lensbaby" effect that is used mainly by wedding photographers using a device called a lensbaby but this effect can easily be duplicated in photoshop. To do this i made the man and his paper his own layer and then blurred the background, after this i then added some blur by the man to make him blend in better.