Month: March 2024

What is a portrait?

A portrait is usually a picture, often a photograph, that shows a person’s face and expressions. It tries to show the person’s character or likeness. Selfies can be portraits, but traditional portraits do not show things in the background that could distract from the person. A good portrait makes you feel something and shows you things about the person that you didn’t know before. It can include more than just the face, like hands or other details. But if you can’t tell who the person is because of abstraction or damage, it’s not a portrait anymore. Portraits don’t always have to show the person’s face. They can be made up of objects that are arranged in a way that looks like the person or a series of pictures that together show their presence.

Mind Map – Portraits

1.What are some of your favorite movies, genres, books, etc. Can you style a shoot around that concept?

Some of my favorite movies involve the car industry, wether it be racining or history. I believe i could style a shoot with cars and get many different angles of different cars.

2.Is there a location or photograph that inspires you? What story can you design around those inspirational things?

A location that could be an alleyway, and i could relate a crime scene to that location as that is the typical location for a crime scene either in television or literature.

3.Is there a story or emotion from your life you want to communicate to the world?

I could connect the emotion of anxiety, the reason for this is because anxiety can create many creative ways of styling the shoot, with props and lighting.