Portraiture

For our first project of the semester, we had to focus on different styles of portrait photography. My first photo (top) is a candid portrait. It is meant to be an intimate moment between father and son that is forever frozen in time in print (and on screen!). My second photograph calls into question the definition of a portrait. Despite this not being a true portrait of my grandmother's likeness, the image displays aspects of her character and also how loved she was. The next three portraits are centered around one of my favorite types of photography and that is animals! I love being able to capture images of living creatures that are incapable of understanding a photographers wishes/instructions. For me, photographing animals is a challenge and being able to capture decisive moments of living creatures is extremely gratifying. The last picture derived from the experience I have gained as I have dabbled in photography. My younger brother has been an athlete his entire life and for the last few years I have gained a lot of hands on experience from photographing his various sports games. Each sport comes with it's own challenges in order to gain great pictures and I love the feeling I experience when I get a particularly good shot of athletes in motion. I particularly liked the way this photograph looked like it was old football film reels and with very little editing, I was able to draw out more of the particular look to the image.