Chadwick+Portrait

**PHOTO #1**
**Lighting**: Natural Sunlight **Compositional technique**: **Artist**: Sally Mann **Title:** N/A **Site:** []
 * Rule of thirds - The woman in the photo is slightly to the right, creating the rule of thirds technique. This creates more diversity in the image. If she were to be right in the middle of the photo, it would be boring; placing her even just a little bid to the side creates a higher quality image, and it is obvious that the photographer did this on purpose.

** PHOTO #2 **
**Lighting:** Natural Lighting **Artist:** Daido Moriyama **Title:** Self-portrait with Dogs **Site:** []
 * Compositional technique: **
 * Leading Lines - The edges of the mans silhouette lead your eye to the top of the photo where the dogs are placed. His silhouette creates somewhat of a triangle shape (bigger on the bottom, gradually gets smaller at the top), which leads the eye in between where the two dogs are laying on the grass.

**PHOTO #3**
**Lighting:** Artificial **Compositional Technique:** **Artist:** Sally Mann **Title:** Self-portrait **Site:** []
 * Framing - The gradient black shadows around the edges of the photo create a circle around the main focal point - the woman holding the camera. This lets the eye focus specifically on the woman, and not the background of the photo.
 * Rule of Thirds - In the main circle of the photo, the camera is placed precisely in the middle. Although this camera is in the center, the woman is off the the left of the photo, so that we can effectively see the woman and her camera.

**ANALYSIS QUESTIONS**
**How do these artists make their portraits become true works of art, not just snapshots?** The artists make their portraits become true works of art by capturing emotion and personality in what the photograph. Personality only shows up for a small amount of time, but when the camera catches that personality, the photo becomes a true work of art, not just a simple snapshot. **What lighting and compositional techniques are evident in the photographer's work?** Natural lighting is evident because it seems that the photographs were taken outdoors. The rule of thirds is evident in this photograph because it is not in the center. Also, one of the photographs appears to be taken indoors, in artificial lighting, which works just as well as natural light. **How might their artwork influence your own?** Their artwork could influence my own by inspiring me to take a picture from a lower angle, looking up at a face. Also, the image shows true emotion, which I want to capture in my photographs. All of these images are in black and white, and most images that I have seen are in black and white; the black and white effect appears to portray more emotion, and captures emotion better than a traditional color photo would.