Commercial Photography - Portrait Inspirations 1/12, 1/13

Please click the link below to see some great portrait photographers from the past. Each has produced an iconic image that in many cases became their calling card in the photography world.

Read the story and look through all of the images, if you can watch the two videos please do so, then do the assignment listed below:

http://petapixel.com/2015/02/12/portraits-famous-photographers-iconic-photographs/

Pick three of the photographers and do a google search on them.

Write a brief biography about them based on what you read. Make this 2-3 paragraphs in length. Include name, education, published titles, inspirations, goals, employment, etc.

Post the portrait image they are famous for.

Next please use your previous knowledge to reflect upon the following items and write a couple of sentences about each item as it relates to the famous image each of these photographers is famous for:

What kind of lighting was in their famous image? Appropriate terms to think about - type of light (hard, soft, etc), direction of light, intensity of light, angle of the light, and how the light impacted the image.

Location where the image could have potentially been taken? Appropriate ideas include environmental or studio, or otherwise.

Camera Settings - what potential settings might have the photographer used in their camera to get this image?

Subject body position - was your photographer able to pose their subject, what kind of decisions might they have been making when doing so, if they were unable to pose them directly, where and how did they position themselves to get this image?

Clothing and props- was the clothing/props important to the image?

And finally composition - is there evidence of composition rules in your image? If so please list them and explain why you think that rule is evident.

Finally, pick 2 other images you found of their work that you like, save and post them on your blog. Write a couple of sentences for each explaining why you picked that image.

In the end you should have a fairly significant amount of writing under each image you post today and you should be posting 9 total images for 3 different photographers.