Face To Face

Photography Project

Start date: Thursday 10 November 2011

Final deadline: Thursday 15 December

6 week project

Task: Self/Other

• Research 1 historical portrait photographer and 1 contemporary portrait

Photographer

• In your own work you can either photograph yourself or a friend.

Produce a mind map of all your ideas - write about facial expression / clothing /

props / lighting and what message you want to communicate. For this task you can

also sketches your ideas ( if you do this you will need to photograph/

photocopy your sketches and add this to your Powerpoint presentation).

• Plan and prepare a studio photo shoot - state the date and time you have

booked the studio for / what props and/or models you plan to use and any

Equipment (lights/tripod etc) you plan to use.

• Take a set of professional studio portraits.

• Using Photoshop edit between 6 and 8 photographs

• Evaluate your own photographs

When planning your portrait photographs consider the following…

Facial expressions and what message(s) you want to communicate

Camilla Akrans

Kate

Irvin Penn

Clothing / props / make-up and what message(s) you want to communicate

Richard Avedon

Sean Penn

QuickTime™ and aBMP decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

Composition and viewpoint

The background in the studio. Will you have a plain white or black

back drop or will you use a different background to compliment the model?

Lighting and how you might illuminate or hide parts of the face