Portraits

Portraits

This week we were asked to get into pairs and take some portraits of each other using different kinds of lighting techiques. I teamed up with Collette and we both had our own ideas of what we wanted to produce.

Natural lighting

I took this image in front of the window.

 

Honeycone Stop Light

When applying a honey cone stop light I moved the light at different angles of the face to create a shadowed effect.

Soft box

I found this kind of lighting for portraits to be suitable for this genre of photography as it gave a diffused subtle look. I placed the soft box straight on so the main focus is on the face. When post processing this image I have cropped the image and smoothed the skin to give a more youthful appearance. 



Using the same image I have changed the appearance by applying different presets. This tool is simple and very resultant.

Antique light preset - I like the effect old fashioned look it gives.

High contrast - I prefer this preset because the image is more bold. 

Manipulation

I have never done this before and I found it to be more simple then I expected to. I opened out Photoshop and selected half the image and copied the layer. I then used the free transform tool and flipped the half selected image horizontally. I then positioned how I wanted it. I repeated this and manipulated both sides are the face.

These are all the image I have taken on this shoot and turned them into a contact sheet.