Portrait Week!

Hi everyone... this is portrait week.  here are a few tips and make sure that you get this assignment right.

- To begin with, you need to work with daylight... take your person by a window and have them face out toward the light. Or have light hit 50% or more of the face...

-Put your shoulder against the same wall that the window is on so that you don't have light coming directly at the camera... one of the biggest mistakes people make is to put somebody by a window and then point the camera at them, all the while, the light source is behind them...if there's one theme in this class it is that you have learned to become sensitive to where the light is and what it illuminates...

-Very important... don't let direct sunlight fall on your subject... that will blow out their skin tones and the results will not be very good. Use indirect light... the softer the better.

-Hold your camera vertically...zoom in a bit with your telephoto, and place the top of the head at the top of the frame.  If you use at wide-angle setting on your camera that features will be distorted... that's fine for joke shots, but we are trying to fry an egg  here and don't want it  to get burned.

-While you're leaning into the wall with your shoulder,  jam your elbows into your side, holding the camera very steady and gently squeeze the camera shutter.  That will help keep your shots much sharper.

-Take your time with your subject... don't get nervous... wait them out if they're being silly or talkative.  Notice how beautiful the shot of this child is... for all of the above reasons....

Found on Google Images..... 

Good luck!