When I think of portraits I usually am reminded of straight forward, posed pictures of people. So with this assignment I wanted to go in the opposite direction. The portraits I took are very up close, in your face, detailed pictures. They're not taken in a studio, or posed in any sort of way. You can see the imperfections in each person skin. But I think being photographed in this way speaks more about your personality and who you are then if you were to get studio pictures taken.
Most people don't pay attention to the little details of others or of themselves. My whole objective was to amplify the small "imperfections" we see in ourselves, and others, because those imperfections are what makes us who we are. I also tried to stay away from photographing eyes straight on, because I wanted to leave a little mystery in the pictures. You can't see the whole person's face and that really makes you wonder what they look like.
I used the biggest aperture I could because I wanted the viewer to really just look at the person's face, or one small detail about them, I didn't choose to do black & white because I love all the different skin tones, and you can see how imperfectly perfect some really is.
I really like all the photos you've taken. It's really cool that bringing them all together makes one face.
ReplyDeleteThis is an unique approach to portraiture. It's neat to see features we see every day up close, which is an angle we rarely see.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful amplifications of features (flaws even) that are not normally emphasized photographically. I think you should try printing these out large-scale as discussed in class to further enhance these details.
ReplyDeleteThis series reminded me of photographer John Coplans…I think you would appreciate his work, which you can check out here