“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”

Portraits often show us what a person looks like, but they can also capture an idea of a person or what they stand for. Portraits can also tell us how a person wants to be seen, and capture a particular mood that the sitter is experiencing.

my best single objects in my opinion are these:

These are the best two single object edits i liked more because i like the colours in the baground and how the shade of the objects blend in so well.

My final photo was going to be this one:

But then i edned up taking more photoshoots in the studio and these are what i came up wtih:

first one is the normal image and the second one it the edited one. I also decided to edit them a bit more after and this was how it came out:

more photoshoots and edits:

normal image:

edited images:

For my final image i picked this edit:

I chose the above edit as my final picture because i love how its set and they all just fit in so well together in the photo. Also like the brightness and the texture of it.

for my photoshoot i used loads of different toots and edited them all in different ways. These are the best photoshoots and edits out of all of them, in my opinion.

Normal image:

Edited images:

For all of these photoshoots the texture has decreased and i tried to make as different to each other as possible. I was playing around with the colours and the brightness and the highlights and i ended up liking them like it’s show above.

This is a image of how i edited the first image of them all above.

I then decided to take photos of more than one obejcts and edit them and this is how it turned out.

Normal image:

Edited images:

For the second photoshoot in the above i decided to make it a bit more different to the others and change the background of it, i’m not quite sure i like it, i like how its set and the shadows of the objects but all together i dont think its that good. Out of those three the one i liked the most of the first one because i like how the texture is nice and smooth and i like how its nice and bright in the middle then goed dark on the outside.

First photoshoot:

The first picture is the normal picture and the second one is edited. I prefer the edited one because it has brighter colours.

I then decided to take more photos but only using one or two objects.

Nomal photo:

Edited:

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Best edits:

Those are the top five best photos in my opinion because i like the colours and the texture in each photo and love how they are all different in a way.

Best photo:

I picked the photo above as the best photo because i like how bright it is. it just makes it seem more alive also like how the objects are set up.

To edit my best photo i increased the tecture of the photo and i britned it up so it can look more bright. When i added more brightness to the photo i tried to still keep the shadows of the objects to make it better.

The two pictures above are the set ups i used for most of my photoshoots.

WALKER EVANS

Walker Evans was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Farm Security Administration documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans’ work from the FSA period uses the large format, 8×10-inch view camera. Born in St. Louis, United stated on the 3rd of November 1903 and died April 10th 1975 in Yale New Haven hospital, United states. Evans studied at Williams College and the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1955, Walker Evans created his first portfolio, Beauties of the Common Tool, which included commonplace items. These are the photos he would take of tools:

DARREN HARVEY-REGAN

Darren Harvey-Regan is a graduate of the Royal College of Art. His work has appeared in exhibitions and publications internationally and is part of the permanent photography collection at the V & A Museum, London. In 1955, Fortune magazine published, ‘Beauties of the Common Tool’, a portfolio by Walker Evans featuring pictures of ordinary hand-made tools, such as a ratchet wrench and a pair of scissors.

Harvey-Regan first constructed a montage of Evans’s images to make new forms. He then sourced matching tools, cut them in half and re-joined various halves together, with the resulting physical objects being photographed to create his final work. The montaged tools become both beautiful and bizarre objects, in which a ratchet wrench is combined with a pair of pliers and a Mason’s trowel joined with a pair of scissors. These are two of his photo art:

Regarding the selection of objects, composition, lighting, and exposure levels, both artists Darren Harvey-Regan and Wlker evans paid close attention to detail. There are certain distinctions between these two painters in addition to their obvious similarities. For instance, Darren Harvey-Regan takes photos of everyday objects while Walker Evans does not change their appearance.

Nostalgia

William Eggleston

Since the early 1960s, William Eggleston used color photographs to describe the cultural transformations in Tennessee and the rural South. He registers these changes in scenes of everyday life, such as portraits of family and friends, as well as gasoline stations, cars, and shop interiors. Eggleston looks at the world with the eyes of a documentarian rather than a curator: He shoots from unexpected angles or when the subjects are looking away. This creates the impression that the photographer isn’t there, and makes the images all the more intimate. He calls attention to familiar places, the people, and the objects that inhabit it. Here he has created a picture of an everyday scene. Shooting from an unusual angle, the mundane subject matter and cropped composition combines to produce what is considered a snapshot.

This is one of William Eggleston’s works. I have chosen this artist because his work may seem random but makes it seem alive with the vivid colours in the images. His photos show me that anyone can make any boring picture into looking more joyful. The lighting, texture and tone look beautiful and it doesn’t even look edited, it looks soft and natural.

These pictures represent the road trips I would always have as a child. The first picture is the original and the others are edited. I changed lightings as much as i could so most them of could see more bright.

I decided to take pictures of the park since that’s one of the places I would be most as a child. My favorite photo out of all of these park pictures is the second one. Just love how it’s set.

My final piece is the photo above because I like the brightness of the picture. Also love how it is set and it makes it look alive.