Our final project for photography was a self portrait assignment. I was really excited to do the self portrait project because I have not photographed people this semester. I thought it would be challenging and fun to experiment with taking photos of another person. I am not a huge fan of photographs of myself so I decided to photograph another person for my self portrait project.
For this project I decided to photograph a good friend of mine. I wanted to do a very natural photo shoot for this project. I had my friend wear a light dress that accented her olive skin tone. I asked her to wear light, natural make-up. I decided that San Pedro park would be a perfect place to photograph for this assignment. San Pedro park provided beautiful natural lighting and a unique scenery for the photographs.
I had never worked with a model before this assignment. It was a bit challenging to work with a model because I wasn't sure what to ask her to do. Since I am not very experience with photography, I didn't really know how to adequately direct my model. Although I wasn't exactly sure how to direct her,it was really fun to experiment with a model. Mostly, I wanted to capture her natural emotions and movements. Sometimes I tell her to think about things that made her happy, sad, or excited to evoke certain emotions. Other times I would just wait until she moved in a certain way I liked, or until a particular emotion came out.
Overall, I think that the project went really well. I learned which angles are best when photographing another person. I also discovered the best methods to capture natural emotion from another person. In the future, I will probably be more directive when it comes to photographing other people.
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