Finding a focus:

For my identity project, I would like to explore different emotions using differing techniques of photography in portraiture.

Image inspiration:

On the internet, I found some photographers with various techniques of portraiture: Nirav Patel, Joe McNally, Jovana Rikalo, and Annie Leibovitz. They all have different techniques: light and shadow, colors, backgrounds, reflections, and some of them even use black-and-white contrast. Some techniques are common among them: the focus on the eyes, the facial expressions, the body language, and the placement of the hands.

Some ideas that I have about emotions are that some of the subjects can have deadpan expressions, or maybe cool poses, and for the rest, some happy, some sad, and some nervous.