Monthly Archives: March 2018

Portraiture

Self-Portraits

The Bluff

f/5.6 1/500 ISO 100

The Boardwalk

f/7.1 1/800 ISO 100

The Dock

f/6.3 1/320 ISO 100

 

Portraits of Someone I Know

Walk

f/5.6 1/125 ISO 100

Ponder

f/6.3 1/2500 ISO 100

Wander

f/6.3 1/1200 ISO 100

 

Portraits of Someone I Don’t Know

Ocean

f/6.3 1/640 ISO 100

Bay

f/5.6 1/100 ISO 400

Harbor

f/5.6 1/120 ISO 220

 

As a portrait photographer, I discovered that I really enjoy integrating photography with nature. I love the outdoors and any activities that I can do within nature. I like capturing the innocence and natural behaviors of people that occur in the outdoors. Also, I discovered that I enjoyed incorporating nature with landscapes while doing the portrait assignment.

Color Portraiture

During my interview with Amy, I noticed that she particularly likes color within nature. She’s a photography student at School of Visual Arts in NYC and focuses on nature, landscape photography. She’ll take any chance that she can take to be outside in the wilderness and I thought that this picture of red flowers against the Swiss Alps during my time in Interlaken, Switzerland would make a great color portrait for her. She is a redhead so I identify her with objects that are colored red. I thought that the red flowers would represent her well. The flowers symbolize her because of their delicacy and their strength from their thorns.

 

Through my interview with Jen, I noticed that she put a lot of importance in color with food. I chose this picture that I took during my time in Marrakesh, Morocco. Jen explained to me that the more vibrant colors are, the more joy they bring to the viewer. In Morocco, the entire cities are filled with color. I thought that this picture of dried foods and spices would make a great color portrait for her. The vibrancy of the picture can demonstrate different tastes, moods, or memories to the viewer and it perfectly represents how Jen feels about color.

Portraiture Study

Catherin Colaw’s series of self-portraits, Original Sin, is an exploration of vulnerability and sexuality. Her series exemplifies the separateness between the dismemberment of the female body and the landscape in which the photographs are shot.

Source: https://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/the-naked-truth-artist-catherin-colaw-fog/