Home Sweet Home Assignment 1 Environmental

What is an Environmental Portrait:

An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography.

For the Photo shoot I decided to capture my mum and my dog in their natural environment

Information about People im Photographing:

  • Mum:
  • Is 65, who does work however at the moment is looking after my dad.
  • She also has several hobbies which includes knitting, watching movies, reading, watching the TV.

Dog: My dog is a 1 year old doberman

Images:

The images I have selected and discarded

Images I have edited from Photo-shoot:

I have used the before and after view to see if the image looks better in black and white or clour, I have decided to go for black and white.
I have edited the highlights, exposure, clarity of the image, so it makes the image clearer.
I have edited the black and white tones within the image to create a effect for the surroundings.
Final Image 1 – My Mum

Edit 2:

I decided to crop this image so the audience dont get distracted by the other things in the background.
I have edited the temperature and tint and the clarity within the image.
I have edited the tone curve to increase the highlights, and decrease the shadows, and the light and dark tones.

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