Environmental portraits are portraits taken in the subjects usual environment, they highlight and bring attention to there life and everything going on around them, environmental portraits are a genre of photography.

The goal of these photos is to capture somebody’s everyday life, what they like to do and there personality traits (you could control there facial expression to show this)

Evaluating the key features of this photo

The photo has artificial lighting coming from above.

The photos environment is a reception desk at a rich place of work, we can tell its a wealthy place of work because the frame of the painting.

The framing is a half body angle and taken dead pan.

The approach taken was to have the guy pull a neutral face giving him a nonchalant serious feel.

The gaze of the photo is the guy making direct eye contact with camera, engagement with the photo.

The camera settings are wide lens with mid-range f stop and a low ISO.

Alfred Krupp

Alfred Krupp is a revolutionary inventor, worth roughly a billion dollars in the 1960s, Arnold Newman (a Jewish photographer) is a well known environmental portrait photographer, the photo Arnold took of the inventor Alfred was used to preserve his legacy and became a iconic piece of work.

This portrait was taken on July 6 1963, using a wide angle lens, the lighting is weird and eerie with a green tinge that makes the subject appear to be a evil/not nice person.

When Newman and Krupp first spoke, Krupp was racist to Newman after finding out he was a Jew and wouldn’t let him create the photo, Newman ended up eventually convincing Krupp to let him take it by having him look at his portfolio, after how poorly Krupp treated Newman, Newman used the photo to make Krupp look as evil as possible.

This is a environmental photo I took of two pupils working in the studio, shooting a cover for there poster.

After taking some photos I decided to put them in Lightroom and see what I could do with the.

With this photo I shifted the perspective off it by using the transform feature in Lightroom.

I used the colour grading wheel to shift the original colour of the image completely, I chose random colours that went well together to create a weird abstract feel in the photos and because I chose bright and vibrant colours which gave the photo a happy vibe to it, I also put grain on the photo because I find it aesthetically pleasing and enjoy the retro look it gives the photos.

This photo is a portrait of me

Yet again I decided to put random colours on it and added grain to change the texture of the photo giving it a vintage feel, I also cropped out all the unneeded background space to make me the main subject of the photo.

We took this photo of me walking with a very scenic background.

When editing this photo I made the midpoint dark blue, which gave the photo a cold feeling to it.

Me and my group decided to use loads of different sheets of coloured see through plastic and hold it over the spotlight in the studio to therefore change the colour of the light, we did a photoshoot experimenting with each of the different colours to then discover what our favourite was.

This was pink.

This was Purple.

This was blue.

This was Red.

We decided that red was our favourite colour and took our best photos using the red light, here’s them unedited.

we did a experiment with the ISO (sensitivity to light) using paper as our subject, we used a range of ISO’s to be able to clearly see a difference between the photos.

This photo has a low ISO, we also used a dark see through piece of plastic to give us a brownish tint to the photo which we did for these next two photos as well as we found it to be aesthetically pleasing.

This photo has a medium ISO, you can clearly see the subject

This photo has a high ISO, this has caused the subject to become overexposed

This photo we decided to put a red see through plastic sheet half over the spotlight, leaving half of the light how it was and the other half red, this gave us a really unique image

I really liked this photo and had the idea to try and make it look like the French flag so I went to experiment in light room and gave it a go, here is my outcome:

ISO is a sensitivity set by International Organization for Standardization, it is a number measurement of the cameras sensitivity to light.

A low ISO shows a lower sensitivity and a worse ability to take in light and a high ISO shows a higher sensitivity and a higher ability to take in light.

This photo which took from the internet shows a good example between a low and a high ISO and the in-between range.

Here are some photos me and my group took when trying out multiple ISO’s to see the difference between the range.

The first photo is a super low ISO of 100, photo two and three are a in-between range of moderately low and moderately high and the forth photo is the highest ISO of the four and is around ISO 800.

We took our photos in a already dark place, this being underneath a set of stairs with the only light in the area being the light going through the cracks in-between the stairs.

This photo was taken in the schools assembly hall and was taken with a super high ISO which caused the light to ruin the photos balance and over expose it, “ruining” the image.

The aperture is how much light is let into the camera.

It is in the iris of the lens.

Its measured in F/stops.

Depth of field is what’s in focus in front or behind the subject.

A high F/stop is f/16 – f/22

This is a photo I took on the website with a high aperture f/16, this has made it so everything is in focus.

Here is a photo of me with a low shutter speed, this makes it so me the main subject is the primary focus of the image and the background is blurred to make it so I pop/stand out.

Here is a photo i took where the shutter speed is super low and is not able to capture the image correctly due to loads of light being taken in, the photo is out of focus causing it to come out blurry to a point where its hard to distinguish what it is, its came out similar to a photo by Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

Meatyard made his living as an optician, born in 1925 and died in 1976. He was a member of the “Lexington camera club” and pursued his passion for photography outside the mainstream. He experimented with various strategies including multiple exposures, motion blur, and other methods of photographic abstraction. Two of his series are particularly concerned with focus and depth of field, both stretching the expressive potential of photography, film and cameras when looking with the ordinary world. Here are some of his photos from his no focus collection.

– No focus- Reducing groups of human figures to indistinct abstractions, the artist proposes an alternate notion to the traditional photographic portrait.