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home sweet home project-ENVIRONMENTAL portraits

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Intro

Although i don’t live in my own parent’s house due to me living with my friend’s parents house i still decided to get out of my comfort zone and take photographs of the house i’m living in. Although they’re not my actual parents they still make me feel like i’m one of their own and treat me as if its my own home, so at the moment i do call it my temporary home.

Environmental Photography

Environmental portraits have always inspired me as it 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. And i love taking real photographs as environmental portraits are taken, they just show how something is without acting any different in front of a camera like most stuff do now a days.

What I Did

I borrowed a camera from school and came home one day and built up the courage to ask the people living at my temporary home if they would give me their permission to photograph them and they were more than happy to do so. So all i asked from them was for them to just act normal as if i’m not there so i can get the realest picture of would they look like naturally in the comfort of their home. And here is how it went:

Mark

Mark is my friend’s father and he is the best cook ever, therefore hes the one in charge of the cooking in the house, and apart from that hes also in charge of Gypsy the do. So i began with waiting for him to cook something then went ahead and took photographs of him in the kitchen while he was cooking first and this is what i came out with:

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i like the lighting in this photograph, as the yellowness of the room and light adds a lot of color to the portrait

Alison

Alison, my friend’s mother is the hardest worker in the house and works with children. She comes home late and goes straight to her room most of the time but i managed to take a couple of unique photographs of her rare sighting just before she smuggled into her room:

I had to take this portrait at fast shutter speed as i had to take it in a rush before Alison went into her room

Mathew

Mathew is my best friend or more like a brother to me. He is mostly playing games on his PC, so i decided that this is what i want to photograph him doing. So i just sneaked from the back of the room and photographed him without him even knowing:

You can see how messy the room is in this portrait which shows how naturally the rooms look like without preparing it to be photographed. And i chose florescent white balance to create this white tinge in the portrait

Gypsy

Gypsy the dog is very active and jumpy, as to her close relationship with Mark i decided to take photographs of her as she was playing with mark:

Just a casual portrait of Mark messing about with Gypsy here and i like how i got the best picture at really fast shutter speed while gypsy is mid air jumping towards her toy

Best Portrait

I chose this as my best portrait as it has a lot of meaning showing how common it is now a days for parents to just forget about the world around them and just get so lost and involved in their technology. In this photograph you can see how Mark and Alison are both sitting down in the same room on the same couch but not much interaction is happening between them as each one of them is on their phone and they’re watching T.V in the same time.

Conclusion

In conclusion, in this project it helped me a lot to discover the home i’m living in and get closer to the family i am living with, by photographing what they do in their daily lives on a day to day basis without changing what they’re doing and how they look like.

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