Food Photography

The difference between a menu at Pizza hut and professional food photography is a lot to do with the set up and theme of the image. Professional food shoots usually consist of a lot of preparation. The lighting and placement of everything is essential to get a good shot. Places that are taking pictures for menus rarely think about how the set up looks, the background lighting etc. It's mostly about the food, but even then, most of the restaurants don't go as far as professional photographers when fixing the food.

Michael Ray

Shawn Taylor

Wedding Photography - Photobooths

http://www.shutterbugbooth.com/booth

The link above is a photographer who provides the service of a photo booth. It's traditional like other photo booths that you see in malls. You are able to rent the booth for most events. How it works is you go in the booth and press the start button, pictures will be taken every few seconds, with a count down so you know when to pose. There's no photographer actually present in the booth, its all mechanical and performed with the highest quality equipment. After the photos are taken the pictures are printed out at another station, again with no one present. At the end of the event the images are all posted onto a website so people can view them. This is only one form of the photo booth, some are actually more like studio sessions with props etc.

Narrative

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Environmental Portraiture

Link to Good images

 The images I chose for good environmental portraits are images that have an expressive background. Looking at the background and back to the subject you're able to know what the subjects interests are. The background can also tell you what kind of person they are, if they are calm, fun, ambitious people.

Link to Bad images

The images I chose for bad environmental portraits are images that have irrelevant backgrounds. They don't have anything to do with the subject and basically are placed there just because the background is nice to look at. Looking at the subject and the background together you get confused about what the photo is actually about.

Link to My Images

Assignment 2 Part 2

My favorite images out of the five, are the first image, and the fourth image, because I think they best emulate Sally Mann's work.  The original images are down below. I tried to get the depth of field like Sally Mann's but because of the different background it was hard to achieve. I should have done more post production to get the soft focus around the arms. Overall I think that I did a pretty good job, I really enjoyed this project and I think i'll continue to emulate some of Sally Mann's photos. I really like using natural lighting, and she uses such interesting subject and contexts that it makes it so much fun to emulate.

Assignment 2- Research

Sally Mann

            Sally Mann's portraits really stand out to me. I like her use of DOF and lighting. Her subjects are always young, and although they mostly look beautiful and angelic, she uses a different approach than most photographers.  Her photographs are mostly candid I find, or have a candid sense to them, her subjects never smile or seem to know that the camera is there, they are naturally posed.\

            Her backgrounds/sceneries usually consist of something that would be realistic to the subject. She often took pictures near and around the water. Her lighting is very soft and natural. Her subjects are 90% of the time her children, or young adults. A lot of the time they are photographed naked or with barely any clothes on. Her shallow depth of field is very nice in her photos, I think depending on the background she uses 5.6 or lower.

                                                          

Old Images Tutorials

Original

Attempt 1

This photo is really grainy, but I don't like the effect because its so even, you can tell its post production. Also the photo is very flat, with little highlights and shadows, its mostly mid-tones.

Attempt 2

This photo looks really old and grainy, Its very bright and almost blowing out the face of the model. Its also lost sharpness in the eyes. Its my least favorite of the photos.

Attempt 3

I personally find this is the best one, other than the specks underneath her chin, although it does add an effect of it being old and battered.  The sharpness is all the same within the photo, but the background is blurred. I added slight grain to the photo, and made her face very pale and smooth, while her jacket adds more contrast to the photo.