Tollenaar,+Portrait

Picture 1: This picture demonstrates studio lighting. Picture 2 (top): This picture demonstrates natural lighting. Picture 3 (bottom left): This picture demonstrates studio lighting. Picture 4 (bottom right): This picture demonstrates studio lighting. Picture 5: This picture demonstrates dramatic lighting. [|Timothy White]

All of these pictures are all similar in their own way, but drastically different at the same time. With the compositional techniques, all five of the photos above show rule of thirds, filling the frame, focal point, leading lines, and interesting point of view. In the first picture, Robert Downey Jr has a light shining slightly on his face, but mostly on the wall above him, which I thought looked very interesting, along with the leading lines of the bricks. For the second picture, it was very evident that this picture was not planned because it was simply people leaving their country and coming to America. The leading lines in this picture are everywhere, but eventually lead your eyes back to the father and son. For the third photo, it uses the rule of thirds and point of view. It may seem the subject is placed directly in the center of the portrait, however, because of the way she is turned and the way she is positioned, it makes things less harsh, and even appear less centered. For the fourth photo, even though Robin Williams is centered, the props around him that I ultimately cropped out, made the picture very interesting. For the final photo, there's leading lines within leading lines, which gave a very interesting and almost fake-looking point of view. Also, dramatic lighting is very evident in the last photo, and even though these could've all been in color, I liked the rustic/vintage feel of all the photos, and it looked well with the second photo that actually was taken in the 1960's.
 * __Compositional Techniques__ **