#exploratory practice

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Portraiture : “a semiotic* event for social identity”

The key elects of a portrait are:

The face - expression, personal appearance

The Pose/poise - manner + attitude

Clothing - able to decode sex, class, tribe

Location - sets the social scene - control how light or dark the background is

Smiling directly at the camera - singular photographic convention-expression is fleeting

The Portrait Photographers Skill set

Good interpersonal skills

Good communicator

Application of technical knowledge

Understanding lighting

Framing, focal length, depth of field, composition

Harry Borden

Annie Leibovitz

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Project Proposal-Exploratory Practice

Photograph black and white on DSLR first before using the film camera which I have borrowed

Photograph not a certain topic but what I feel like I want to take and then see how the outcome turns out