this is my environmental portrait mood board.

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.

This is my contact sheet from all of the photos I’ve taken, with different people in their different environment, such as the canteen, offices, classrooms ect.

Final photos before and after editing.

with this photo, as I was using one of the new cameras i used the ‘P’ setting, therefore the photo didn’t come out as good as I expected. to edit this photo, I cropped round the main focus of the image which was Millie, then I made the background blurry, using the blur tool. I changed the photo to black and white and changed the contrast. I also edited the photo to make the background smaller.

With this photo, I also made the background blurry on photoshop. I made sure to keep the ‘cold drinks’ sign in the photo which helps the audience understand that she is a canteen lady.

I did the same with this photo, using the blurring tool on photoshop, to enhance the main focus. I cropped the image to get the unnecessary background out of the photo. again like the other photos I made it black and white so it would fit in with my theme of black and white photos.

My evaluation of my photos.

throughout this photoshoot, I personally took many photos up to standard however I think I could have explored with the ISO and aperture more to create better and more clear photos.