![]() While photography always fascinated me I seriously started learning techniques and composition only back in 2016. Participating in the 2021 Trevor Carpenter Photo Challenge is fun and easy. Tag the photo: #2021photochallenge #photochallenge #tempusaura Post your photo each week to our active communities on Facebook or Flickr (or both).Take a new photo for the current weekly theme, not something from your back catalog or someone else’s image.The friendly community guidelines are pretty simple: In other words, “why do I like (or not like) this photo?” or “why did this photo catch my eye?” Thank you! Please remember to comment on at least FIVE photo submissions this week by answering the question “why?” in your comments.SOOC (straight out of camera) or edited post your photo during the week of Sunday, January 3 and Saturday, January 9.Carefully think about perspective, exposure and general composition and experiment with these parameters while you are taking your photo.Select your subject and mood/story/personality aspect you want to capture.On Instagram there is a fascinating account with lovely and romantic children’s photos completely faceless: Or you can check out this mood board on Pinterest: This short article is published via the digital photography school – another favourite website of mine. She has written several books and articles and also records an interesting podcast series. We will not show a person’s face nor have the subject look directly into the camera.Ī French street photographer – Valerie Jardin – is one of my favourite sources of ideas and education. While we will follow the rules of portraiture by composing carefully and thinking about what aspect of a person to capture. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.“ For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot but a composed image of a person in a still position. ![]() ![]() The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. „A painting, photograph, sculpture or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. Childhood memories by Ulrike Lukasczyk We will wilfully break the rules of creating a portrait! The final result should be an image of a person without showing the face or more importantly without showing the eyes. It can be a head shot, a part of the person or the whole body from far away as in a street photo. Props like masks or record covers may be held in front of the face. We can create silhouettes or play with depth of field or intentional blur. Of course we can also experiment with a tripod, timer and self portraits. When our subject is not recognisable we probably won’t have too much trouble asking for permission to publish the photo. We are going to capture a situation, a mood or an aspect of a person’s character without revealing too much. The first theme of the new year is about creating a portrait in a creative way.
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