Sorry I’m a day late posting this as I didn’t get back to Sheffield until after 9pm, however yesterday (04/02/2020) I travelled to Blackburn to both visit a friend as well as compose a portraiture shoot in order to gain more confidence when producing or capturing portraits as I tend to struggle getting the correct aperture, shutter speed and exposure, and plan to use portraits as part of my portfolio. Fortunately due to my friend having a background in photography she was able to guide me whilst taking on the role of the main subject, allowing me to capture some interesting portraits, which was a huge benefit as the outcomes look in my friends opinion “profile picture worthy”.
Probably one of my favourite shots from the whole shoot, what this image shows is a well composed portrait demonstrating my understanding of lighting. For example using a natural light source (sun), and exposure triangle settings of f/16 at 55mm with a shutter speed of 1/50 and an ISO of 200, I was able to create this checkerboard style lighting without the use of softboxes or reflectors.
As well as this, the background works well with the portrait as it makes my subject stand out.
Taken in landscape orientation, this particular shot was captured via built-in filters, specifically the extracted colour in order to display both black and white as well as colour.
Shot with aperture and shutter speed readings of f/5/6 and 1/100, this shot evidently demonstrates my previous photography background in terms of rule of thirds as my subject is central of the frame with the remaining 2/3rds being either sides. Composition will be delivered / explained in depth in the following blog post.
I took numerous attempts of this shot and observing them up close on my laptop, this was the most successful in an array of ways.
Firstly, you can clearly see the face of the spray painted background which is what I was aiming to achieve. Secondly, crop wise I went for a mid-wide shot meaning my friends head to waist is captured as a way of showing size difference between the graffiti and model.
