photography portraits

PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITSEscola Betúlia

PORTRAITS

Avoid direct sunlightUse the shade Use window light Use indirect light

CAMERA ANGLE AND PSYCOLOGICAL EFFECTWhere the camera is placed in relation to the subject, it affects the way the viewer perceives the subject.

High angle shot: when the camera is located high (often above head height)

Low angle shot: when the camera is positioned low (often a knee height), looking up. It makes the subject look powerful or threatening.

Bird-eye shot: refers to a shot looking directly down) on the subject. It can be used to emphasise the smallness or insignificance of the subjects.

Horizontal plain: when your scene is set horizontally, everything seems peaceful.

Basic Camera Shot types:

FS: Full shot (or LS: Long shot o WS: Wide shot): shows subject in location

MS: Medium shot: Shows what subject is doing

CU: Close-up: shows a particular part of the subject

MCU: Medium close up: shows subject in more detail

ECU: Extremely Close-up: shows a detail of the subject

Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry, fotògraf d’Estats Units, mundialment conegut per la seva fotografia de la nena Afganesa apareguda a la revista National Geographic al 1985. Després d treballar com a freelance durant anys ara viatja per Àsia fent fotografies, ha fundat ImageAsia al 2004

http://www.imagine-asia.net/

Per ajudar als nens Afganesos a tenir escola i educació.

Steve McCurry

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz va treballar per la revista Rolling Stone. Després va ser fotògrafa a la revista Vanity Fair.

Va ser la primera dona a exposar les seves fotogràfies a la Galeria Nacional de Washinton D.C. i la última en retratar a John Lenon abans de la seva mort.

Annie LeibovitzAnnie Leibovitz has an impressive body of work and is widely considered to be one of America’s best portrait photographers.

És potser la fotògrafa(dona) més ben pagada. Va estudiar diferentes coses (música, pintura..) abans d’estar interessada en la fotografia.

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Annie Leibovitz

Irving Penn

Known for his fashion and portraiture work, but will always be remembered as a portrait photographer.

Irving Penn

Penn was a master of natural light.

Treballava el Bblanc i negre i la teatralitat a les seves fotografies. Va realitzar fotografies a molts personatges reconeguts.

Irving Penn

Richard AvedonRichard Avedon is perhaps the best and one of the most famous portrait photographers of all time. He had a unique ability to break down a subject’s facade and reveal vulnerability.

Richard AvedonLes seves fotografies de moda i retrats van ajudar a definir, a Estats Units, durant l’últim mig segle, la imatgen de bellesa, elegancia i cultura.

També va retratar americans descuneguts sobre fons blanc (In the american west) pel Museu Amon Carter (Texas) durant 5 anys.

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

Mario TestinoMario Testino is most known for hist fashion work. He often works with people over a number of years. His portraits of Princess Diana and Kate Moss are iconic.

Nascut as Perú i afincat a Londres.

Mario Testino

CAPTURING EPHEMERA

Lee Jeffries

CAPTURING EPHEMERA

Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Close to the professional football circle, this artist starts to photograph sporting events. A chance meeting with a young homeless girl in the streets of London changes his artistic approach forever. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The photographer knew that the young girl had noticed him but his first reaction was to leave. He says that something made him stay and go and discuss with the homeless girl. His perception about the homeless completely changes. They become the subject of his art. The models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in the United States: «Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait.» From then onwards, his photographs portray his convictions and his compassion to the world.

CAPTURING EPHIMERA

Pierre Gonnord

CAPTURING EPHEMERA

Pierre Gonnord captures the marginalized and invisible members of society in elegant portraits. He has traveled to cities and villages in France and Spain, the American South, and Japan, finding his subjects among heavily tattooed Japanese yakuza, urban homeless youth, the blind, farmers, and coal miners. His lush, large-scale prints, centered upon the dramatically lit faces of his subjects, whose heads emerge from inky-black backgrounds, recall portraits by Rembrandt, Velázquez, and, at times, El Greco. Before he begins to shoot, Gonnord gets to know his sitters, the better to photograph them in all their dignity, complexity, and beauty. “Sometimes hostile, almost always fragile, and very often wounded behind the opacity of their masks, they represent social realities and sometimes another concept of beauty,” he says.

CAPTURING EPHEMERA

Pierre GonnordRembrant

CAPTURING EPHEMERA

Pierre Gonnord Velàzquez

Joan Sèculi

Let’s take some portraits!