ART 163: Portraiture.

Well, I haven't updated this blog since before Spring break. I guess I was just doing too much over break to have enough time to update anything, though I have content to update it with (and plenty).

Now, for this assignment, we were supposed to do portraiture, but I decided to go in a bit different direction than the normal "studio" portraiture (as big of a fan as I am of that style).

 We started off inside, because it was snowing pretty fiercely outside. But the pictures weren't quite coming out the way that I wanted, so out of around 45 pictures, only these two (left and below) turned out to be worth saving.

I was trying to get some sort of condensed light from the light umbrella, yet I really need a new, more powerful flash to really get what I want.

These two are very similar, yet I couldn't decide between the two of them, because they are so ... intense. In the zoomed in image you can see a lot of snow caking on her face and eyebrows. I am very thankful to her for dealing with the below freezing, very fast wind conditions.








And now what I think to be the best of the photoshoot.
 

 

This one gives a great sense of how intense the wind really was. Because of the front-curtained  flash (look it up if you don't know what that is, it is a really interesting property of flash units). You can really see the vortices in the snow, how it was flowing around the model. All in all I would say an extremely successful photoshoot, though I only got 5 pictures out of it.

Excellent. 

Kevin