Showing posts with label candid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label candid. Show all posts

Friday, April 23, 2010

Re-Shoot at North West Trade Printers

After over looking my final edited photographs from my previous photo shoot at NWTP it was apparent that there were areas in which I could have improved in regards to how I composed my photographs via the view finder. Therefore yesterday I re-visited North West Trade Printers so I could take some further working environmental portraits and also take some Candid portraiture , as this is another area within the portraiture genre to which I have not explored as much as I would have liked.




My CANDID shots - A variety of colour and black and white images , accompanied with camera information all shot with the use of white balance (Fluorescent) - (All manipulation was done via the use of 'Lightroom 2.0' again using a mixture of settings similar to that advised within my previous Blog titled (Working Environmental Photo Shoot)

ISO 2500, 105mm, F5.6 @ 1/50


ISO 2000, 41mm, F5.6 @ 1/80
ISO 2500, 80mm, F5.6 @ 1/50

ISO 1600, 47mm, F4 @ 1/60


ISO 1600, 30mm, F4.5 @ 1/100

ISO 1250, 50mm, F4.5 @ 1/160
ISO 1600, 38mm, F4 @ 1/100


ISO 1000, 33mm, F3.5 @ 1/60

ISO 1600, 90mm, F5.6 @ 1/60
ISO 1600, 90mm, F5.6 @ 1/100

ISO 1600, 44mm, F4 @ 1/60

Below are some more environmental portraits the first two are of Steve and Derek. I asked them to kindly pose for me again in a similar position as the last time I visited, in order to ensure that they are better composed within the frame


RAW image
DSLR settings - ISO 2000, F5 @ 1/60 - White balance (Fluorescent)



RAW image
DSLR settings - ISO 1250, F5 @ 1/40 - White balance (Fluorescent)


RAW image
DSLR settings - ISO 1600, F4 @ 1/40 - White balance (Fluorescent)


RAW image
DSLR settings - ISO 1600, F5.6 @ 1/60 - White balance (Fluorescent)


RAW images
DSLR settings - ISO 1600, F3.5 @ 1/60 - White balance (Fluorescent)



RAW images
DSLR settings - ISO 1600, F4.5 @ 1/60 - White balance (Fluorescent)



RAW image
DSLR settings - ISO 1000, F3.5 @ 1/30 - White balance (Fluorescent)



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Saturday, February 13, 2010

Types of Portraiture- Corporate and Candid

Corporate Portraits

A corporate portrait is associated with a person or peoples' representing a respected position within a working business. The portrait should display a great insight into the person being photographed, what the business is about and also give a great perception to the intended client.

A great example of some powerful political portraits are from Platon's 'Portraits of Power'. A detailed description about the shoot is detailed on the below website;


All of Platon's images convey a strong aesthetic, displaying a distinctive use of the large format camera. The high majority of his sitters have been photographed from a low viewpoint thus giving the audience a feel of their authority and power!




When I think of strong portraits from the past my thoughts lure towards the works of August Sander (1876-1964) whose methods of portraiture have been described in a way to document and categorise humanity. I feel that there is a definite cross over between corporate and environmental portraiture within the majority of his images.






Candid Portraits

Are simply portraits of people who are completely unaware that you are taking a photograph of them, I'd say its very much like being a stalker in some weird kind of way, like the papparazi!
A great example of a photographer who is well known for just taking random photographs of people on the streets is Joel Meyerowitz, he greats himself as a street photographer on the below documentary, a very informative insight into his personal hints and tips on how to blend in on the streets and take fantastic street portrait photographs without hopefully the photographed not feeling threatened by your presence -






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