Portraits

This photo shoot is the second part of my response to the research I did on Walker Evans and the difference between natural and staged portraits. These portraits are of my dad which I am going to include in my project. I tried to make these photographs more natural and look more ‘raw’. I also tried to avoid over editing these photographs to keep the ‘truth’ of them. By portraying my dad in his truest possible way through the portrait. On Lightroom I cropped the photographs because they had too much background in them. I also experimented with the different levels of exposure and contrast. I also experimented with black and white, I think this particular photograph looks better in black and white.  Apart from this i didn’t correct and imperfections etc. like on my previous shoot because I am trying to keep them as natural as possible.  My dad wasn’t as comfortable taking portraits so I was only able to take a few photographs.

portrait 1-6

portrait 2-1

edited 5-1-2

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