Throughout the entire project I put a lot of work into it to create some strong outcomes. I really enjoyed being able to creative freedom during the project.
The environmental portraits was a part I struggled to come up with ideas for, changing my idea three or four times before choosing to do what I ended up doing, making images of one of the bakers at Vienna Bakery making the pastries.
One of my favourite parts of this project was experimenting with different lighting techniques, making images with both Rembrandt Lighting and Butterfly Lighting. We also got to do different colours of lighting, using different gels on the lights to make images with brightly coloured lighting.
We tried different experiments like making Diamond Cameos and Double Exposures, my personal favourite out all of them was the Double Exposures and having fun with it.
Finally, the identity mini-topic, this was my favourite part of the portraiture project. I got to express my own identity as an androgynous person through my photography, doing two separate shoots of selfies, looking androgynous. In one shoot, I’m wearing a shirt and blazer and have slightly harsher lighting, showing the masculine side of androgyny and the other shoot, I am showing the more feminine side of androgyny, wearing more typically “feminine” clothing and am in less harsh lighting.
Overall, this portrait topic was my favourite topic we’ve done so far in class, I got to have fun and express myself properly through the images.
How I mounted up the final outcomes:
