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ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS – PHOTO SHOOT

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What is an environmental portait?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.

Instruction

-Photograph modern day Heroes and pohtograph them in their element of work

Mood Board

  • David Strauss. 2018
  • Kevin Landwer-Johan . 2002.
Douglas Levere 2005
Kevin Landwer-Johan .2002.
  • Mark Ruddik . 2016
  • Douglas Levere 2005
Arnold newman

My pictures

Where : My pictures were taken at Doran’s Bistro I had the chance took take the pictures of the severs, barman and the Chef.

My favourite picture

This is my favorite photo because we can see two people in their working environment. The chef who prepared the dish and finished decorating it before giving it to the client and the waiter who takes the dish so that the client can taste it with pleasure.
You can see by the chef’s facial expression that he is concentrating on delicately finishing his dish and the waiter who takes it delicately. I love the contrast of the lights we can see a lot of shadow on the faces of the two people.Also I enjoy the way I captured the reptition of the lights. At the chef’s level what is interesting is that we focus on his hands, on what he does ,his work . Of course because of the problems this year concerning Covid-19, the individuals must wear masks.

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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 as a genre of photography. By photographing a person in their natural surroundings, it is thought that you will be able to better illuminate their character, and therefore portray the essence of their personality, rather than merely a likeness of their physical features. It is also thought that by photographing a person in their natural surroundings, the subject will be more at ease, and so be more conducive to expressing themselves, as opposed to in a studio, which can be a rather intimidating and artificial experience.

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  • Daniel Korzeniewski
  • Anders Erriksson

ACTION PLAN

WHO – I will be photographing people in their working environment.

WHAT – I will be taking photographs of the subject’s natural working environment including any tools / equipment that they are using.

WHERE – I will be taking my photographs at my place of work, at the Central Market, the Fish Market, and florists.

WHEN – I will be taking photographs over the next few days whenever I have the opportunity to go to the different locations or whenever is the most convenient for the people I will be photographing.

WHY – I will be taking these photographs in order to showcase different lifestyles and areas of work.

MIND-MAP

MY RESPONSE

My thought process behind this particular shoot was that I wanted the subject to be the main focus of the photograph, so I used a plain white background in order to keep the viewer’s attention on the subject. I used fairly natural lighting because I wanted the images to appear light and soft, as opposed to the harsh and dark effect I would’ve gotten if I had used artificial lighting. I placed the subject in the centre of the photograph, again to keep them as the main focus. I experimented with different angles to give each image a unique look and feel, and to avoid capturing the same image over and over again.

As I used different angles, I also managed to change the amount of free space in the photograph which was not used up by the subject. I tried leaving more room above them, below them and to either side of them in order to make each image look different. Additionally, I explored different depth of fields by using a varying range of angles. Again, I did this in order to make each photograph appear different and individual.