Johnson+Portrait

The two black and white portraits seem to have a dramatic kind of lighting to it how on one side of them it’s a very bright light while the rest has a dramatic black to it from the lighting it had. The middle color portrait seemed to just have studio lighting. It doesn’t look to be all that dramatic really.

The two black and white portraits seem to have similar compositional techniques. One similar one is framing. In the first ones the black of the feathery or fur like item is framing her head while on the other the woman’s hair seems to be framing most of while it almost looks like a rule of thirds as well. On the first photo the rule of thirds looks like it can be applied as well. Of course they all have a focal point and a similar point of view. For the middle picture rule of thirds seems to be the most evident and leading lines as well look to be a big factor.

The artist who shot all three of these Portraits was Richard Avedon. The pictures don’t exactly have titles but they have a name to each one. The first picture was Maya Mikhailovna the second picture was Salvador Dali and the third was Sophia Loren.

I found all of these on Richard Avedon’s website here: http://www.richardavedon.com/