Environmental portraits:
They are portraits taken in the subject’s usual environment, such as their workplace, and will typically highlight the subject’s life and surroundings. 

A good environmental portrait can tell a strong story of the persons subject. Their immediate natural surroundings will give the viewer insight into who the person is, what they do and who they are. The location and person should tie together in a meaningful way. They can be used to highlight certain occupations or issues in society , for example homelessness.

Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman was born March 3rd, 1918 in New York. He was raised and went to school in Atlanta and Miami. He specialized  in portraits of well-known people posed in settings associated with their work. This approach, is called environmental portraiture.
He began his career in photography in 1938 where he worked at a chain of portrait and immediately started working in abstract an documentary photographer. He opened his own portrait studio in 1946. Newman saw photography as a way to express himself,k reflecting him and his fascination for people.

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I have chosen this image as my final image as I feel it shows the most about the man and his job. The man is stood tall and proudly infant of all the meats clearly showing he is a butcher. He is wearing an apron and has a big smile on his face indicting he is proud of his working environment. The big expression on his face makes the viewers feel happy and makes us feel as if he loves his job and is proud.

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To create a diamond cameo I narrowed my images from my shoot down to 4 images , including different angles. I then went into photoshop and opened up all 4 images. On all images I selected the  Elliptical Marquee Tool to create the oval shape of the images. I then copy and pasted the oval shaped images onto a blank white document on photoshop and cropped and moved the images around to create the finishing product.

One point lighting is a single source of light, which creates a very natural , sometimes dramatic look that will draw people’s attention to the single lighted person or surface. The use of only one light creates dark shadows which frame the face.

Chiaroscuro is a type of one point photography which is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

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This is my favourite image out of the shoot. I like the contrast of the shadows on her face and how the shadow splits her face in half , which creates a mystery. To create these images I used one point lighting, which created the shadow formed on her face.

Alfred Steiglitz:
Alfred was born on January 1st 1864 in New Jersey , USA. He began to photograph while a student in Berlin in the 1880s and studied with the renowned photochemist Hermann Wilhelm Vogel.  When going back to the US in 1890, he began to advocate that photography should be treated as an art , he wrote many articles arguing his cause. For many years Stieglitz photographed New York, portraying its streets, parks, newly emerging skyscrapers; as well as some of its people. n the late 1910s and early 1920s, he also focused his camera on the landscape around his summer home in Lake George, New York. 

His work:

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I like the outcome of my images as I feel they match and represent Alfreds images well. I edited my images into black and white to replicate Alfreds images.

Arnold Newman was a Jew who took environmental portraits of influential people such as Bill Clinton and Pablo Picasso. Alfred Krupp was a German steel manufacture and inventor. He made ammunition for the Nazi’s and used the Jews from the concentration camp as slaves. Arnold was very hesitant to work with Alfred because of the type of man he was and because of his beliefs.

This image shows a sinister looking man in the foreground of the image with an industrial background. As a viewer we can only see from Alfred’s torso up and he is lent forward with his hands linked , making him look more intimidating

The lighting of this image is a mixture of natural lighting and artificial lighting. Arnold set up artificial light on each side of Alfred so the the lighting hits the sides of his face and deepens in the middle of his face making his eyes look menacing.

The overall consensus of this image is very negative and leaves the viewer feeling quite uncomfortable as Arnold has portrayed Alfred as a very powerful looking man and the fact Alfred is looking directly into the camera gives the viewer the feeling that he is looking straight at them leaving them with an uncomfortable feeling.

Introduction:
Portrait photography is a type of photography which is aimed towards capturing the personality of a person or group of people by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. It is one of the most popular genres of photography. Good portrait photography is able to capture the emotion and personality of the subject person.

Examples of portraits:

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Analysis:
Lee Jeffries captures the true emotions of he subjects he says by being ‘Respectful and courteous’ , he likes to gain the trust of the people long before he photographs them. He says the result of the emotion is a document derived from the acceptance of his presence. Lee likes use front on view and clearly frame the face, he works in black and white as it enhances the shapes and lines in the face and creates a contrast. Lee pus in a conscious effort to place the emphasis on the emotions in the face of the person.
Lee has used lighting which hits the side of the mans face creating a light and dark contrast between the 2 sides of his face. The lighting enhances the lines in the mans face , making the emotion of the man more prominent. Jeffries lightens faces and deepens the shadows created by folds of skin. Lee got the man to make direct eye contact with the camera which makes it feel as if the man is looking directly at you, which creates more sympathy for the man.

Contemporary Photography:
Contemporary photography can be seen as an image of recent times, relative to an image that dates a while back.

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I chose these 3 images as they all are focused on the difference focus can make. I like the first image as the bars in front are out of focus but the container behind the bars are in focus creating a sense of looking into something. The other 2 images are very in focus and focus on specific points.
All these images are in black and white to create a more old , eery look to them.
I chose these images to go together as I felt they were all similar in the sense that they all focused on one object and made one object the centre of the images.

I chose this set of images as I like the shadows created from the angle of the lighting. The shadows create creases and create a sense of depth in the images. All the colours in the 3 images contrast each other and create a nice sequence.
I used artificial lighting to create these images as I liked how the different colours created different feelings for the viewer. The different colours also highlights different points of the tin foil highlighting different parts in each image.

For this set of images I got inspiration from Alfred Stieglitz shoot ‘Equivalent’. This was a shoot focusing on different patterns in the sky. All his images were black and white making the sky look very sinister. I chose to use these images of patterns in clouds as I found all the different patterns intriguing and how Alfred could make the sky look so sinister and dark. These were my final images as they were the most abstract looking.
There is different tones of grey’s and I like how to dark’s and lights contrast each other creating patterns and shapes.

For this I experimented with folding paper in different ways and tearing paper to create different shapes and patterns. I then experimented with different lighting by using the flashlight on my phone to create different shadows. The shadows add more depth to the photo , it also creates contrast with the tonal difference between the light and dark.
All the photos of the paper was taken up close to the paper so that u can see all the lines and shapes created from folding the paper in interesting ways. Taking the image up close also enhanced the shadows and depth in the paper. Also it created a sense of mystery as it was not so obvious that what I was photographing was paper as it looked more intriguing.

Alvin Langdon Coburn – 1917

Harry Callahan – 1950

Similarities:

Both photographers work in black and white. Both images were taken in the early 19’s. Harry uses repetition of lines and symmetry in his image , similarly Harry uses the repetition of the trees to create his effective image using objects.

Differences:

Harry would use commonplace objects and scenery for his focus in his photographs whereas Alvin was known for taking nonobjective photographs meaning he created the symmetry and lines himself. Another difference between the 2 photographers is Callahan chose a subject for his photos , photographed it for a while , left the subject and moved onto a different subject. Wheres Coburn focused on abstract photography and creating abstract lines and flattening the perspective to emphasise abstraction.