Thursday, December 19, 2013

Natural Light Portraits

1. What lessons or experiences did you “synthesize and analyze” to come up with your original idea-- what was your assignment?

My assignment was to take a photo of a person using natural light as the light source in the photo. My original idea was to take some portraits of my friends, but using them seemed very staged. I wanted something in it's natural state so I decided to photograph my cousin's daughter Roslyn. Since Roslyn is a baby, she doesn't quite understand what a camera is so she just acted like she wanted to. This was difficult at some times but it worked out in the end.

4. What do you like best about your images?

I like that they came out well after I changed my direction from friends, to family. I'm glad that I was still able to create good images.

5. Did you have trouble with some part of this assignment?  

The only trouble I had with this assignment was getting the light to be exactly where I wanted it, especially with a model who moves a lot. I overcame that eventually and other than that I didn't have any problems.