Reyes-+Portrait+research

==A: How do these artists make their portraits become true works of art, not just snapshots? ==

They become the people they are taking photos of. They take time out of their life to get to know their portrait, and understand their life.
= There concepts concepts come from deep within their feelings and have a true concept that is different from what people think it is. =

A: What lighting and compositional techniques are evident in the photographer's work?
You always need to have a certain light source. The light sou rces you could use are natural and artificial light. Natural light sources include sunlight, and moonlight. Artificial light includes a lamp, a light bulb, phone flash light, flashlight. etc. In these portraits, the photographer is using natural sunlight in the first one and an artificial light in the second one.

By: Robert Bergman

**A: How might their artwork influence your own?** Their artwork has given me an idea of what I might want to make the concept of my portraits.

**C: Connections to your own work and your own experiences. What does it remind you of?** From experience of taking photos and also taking portraits, my photos are not as complex and well taken than the artists I researched and learned about. These portraits have a very deep concept that the artist came up with and I am hoping that I will come up with a meaningful concept for my photos. By: Richard Avedon and the second photo By: Julia Margaret

Artist Statement:

==During the past two weeks, I have been working on taking portraits of people and coming up with a deep meaning for these photos. The first photo that I took was a photo of my good friend Jake. In this photo, Jake was looking off to the side with a very bland face making it seem like he had no care in the world, when really he cares for so much. My second photo was another picture of Jake, but it was a full body photo showing who Jake is by his style/outfit, how he is standing, and how the look on his face was very down and boring. My third photo was a picture of my friend Shayla. BY having her face a little more joyful, it really showed more of her personality. My concept for all my photos was that even though someone may seem non caring and mysterious on the outside, you do not know what they are feeling on the inside whether it is happy, sad, confused, mad, cheerful, etc. In each of my photos, I showed the rule of thirds by having there face or body not exactly in the middle of the photo and more to the side making the photo more interesting. In the photos of Jake, the back of the wall showed leading lines making the photo more intriguing and having more detail. The lighting used in these photos was the natural sunlight. Over all, I think that my photos had very good detail and focus making them turn out very well done. If I could do this project again, I would probably choose different photos to present that had different lighting just to try something new.==