• To define the vocabulary “Portraiture” in my own words, I would say that it is a genre of photography that focuses on capturing a person’s identity, personality, mood, and some features that reveals something, both external and internal part, about who they are. Portraiture may focus on the top body of the person, bottom half, just their face, or many other parts of them. With the lens of portraiture, it captures a story of the person with the usage of composition, color, and frame as well.

 

  • photograph taken by Annie Leibovitz really captures the person’s facial features with the usage of greenish color’s with the addition of perfect clarity, leading to a better completeness of the photograph as a whole, too. The texture of the skin with the brush marks creates a mood of a not perfect, flawless photograph, but rather one that contains deep meaning within that texture. As the color green represents nature, growth, and freshness, I feel like the photograph focused on the human’s nature, which can relate to natural moments with natural brush marks. The lighting feels really natural, I believe that there is a bit of light on the right part of the subjects face, which makes the viewers look deeper at the photograph.

 

  • This is also Annie Leibovitz’s photograph that focused on blue tones. Comparing to the photograph above, it shows 2/3 of the woman’s body with some paintings in the background. As the color blue symbols calmness, peace, and stability, but also sadness and coldness, I feel like the photograph was meant to kind of represent the sadness and coldness as the woman’s emotions seems to be worried and anxious. Also the background seems creepy in some views as it looks like a museum, but a really empty, hollow one just with some large images. Also, the lighting isn’t really direct, I feel like there is halo light which makes the overall mood deeper and more mysterious.