folio proposal

Make four portraits, using flash lighting. The same person needs to be used for shots 1 and 2 but you need to use other people for shots 3 and 4. 1. Standard corporate portrait/head shot with white (PLAIN!) background, photographed inside. 2. More creative corporate headshot or midshot, photographed i nside. They can be looking off camera talking to someone, gesturing etc or simply a tight more creative crop. 3. A portrait of the same person but have them using a computer, either laptop or desktop. Again, person to be photographed inside. NB: You cannot photograph fellow students. 4 A simple portrait (friend, family) of one person using the monobloc(s) as a main source outside. You will need to make sure you are able to reach a power point. The intent here is to test your ability to combine daylight with monobloc flash. 1. Do some research and post this to your blog. This should include identifying the people you will be photographing, or several ideas for the person you want to photograph. An idea or ideas of the way you will light the person. 2. You are required to present this to the class in two weeks, August 29 and 30 depending upon which class you are in, no exceptions, no excuses, no second chances. This is part of the summative assessment process. 3. You can use your class time to make arrangements for shoots, carry out the shoots, plan and edit images. Belinda will be at CIT to advise and help you, so there are no excuses for unsolved problems! As usual we encourage that you bring your work in progress to class for discussion and are prepared to reshoot if necessary. 4. Submit 5 printed, foam-core mounted A3 prints of the final group portraits by the due date below, as well as the images on CD, and the usual files using the digital file submission guidelines provided in semester 1. IDEAS!!! well i have no clue what im going to do for it. but the few ideas i have got iv only seen have been photos from the internet. PR shots are something that iv never really noticed before or iv really thought about to be quite frank. also to something iv always struggled with is choosing lighting for models so i think this assignment is going to be a challenge. allot of the bad shots iv noticed that people do for their PR lighting is really flat boring and very unexciting or if there not flat and boring they have horrible shadows. the people position also tends to be awkward and very unnatural poses and when they have their hands are cropped out they are always cropped off in really awkward positions. this is a perfect example of dreadful lighting. well its a perfect example of a dreadful photo in general.... see with this shot the lighting is very flat and this man has a crooked nose and the lighting in it exactitudes it very much enough about the bad stuff and more about my ideas i was planning i really like the use of 2 flash units used, one soft light lighting the mans face from the left giving him a nice aura, and there is a more harsh light coming from the right filling in the rest of the shadows. although i do find the harsh light a little to bright and sharp. the way he is positioned with his arms folded it gives him a really "im a happy but hard working fello" kinda look i really like the position of the man in front of the computer it gives you a idea that he kinda knows what he is doing, i think its more effective that he is typing because if he was holding the house it would look a bit weird and there is a nice refection coming from the window onto the glass tabletop. the use of the 2 lights in this image is a better example of what im aiming for in both my portrait images. for my group shot i like stumbled across this image, i like the composition of the people...... but i don't like the peoples positions thay are in.... the man on the left looks like he is trusting into the Asian lady's head and the guy in the back ground looks like such a lurker and if you look really closely there is a set of fingers coming out of the asain lady's head. and i think the camera could scootch up just a little but the soft lighting coming from above is nice i think