Commercial Portraits

For this photo I wanted a happy, effortless personality and I feel that's what it really accomplishes.  This is a fashion magazine and I did a plain background because many known magazines have different background colors. I love how free the picture feels and how her hair is crazy. I know the picture is more natural looking and I like that, I feel it's more relatable. I also wanted to give the picture a summer feel and I think her pose betrays that. 

Magazine Picture
For this photo I just wanted another fun easy photo. I like the contrast in the background and clothes. I choose the aqua because I felt it made the shirt pop. Her hands make the photo more interesting which could potentially be used as an add for pattern shirts. I brightened the photo, changed the saturation, and cropped the photo to make it seem like it could be used in a fashion magazine. 

Fine Art Portrait

Portrait #1
This is my great aunt Leonora. I thought she would be a perfect subject for this fine art portrait since her beautiful skin shows a  story. I really like the contrast between this photo and my second one it shows two different emotions. I wanted to focus primarily on the subject for this photo, also.  Though at first I wanted my great aunt to be straight face and serious I really enjoy that she's not. This shows two different kinds of fine art portraits. For this photo Zizi ( what we call her) is sitting in her chair that has to be at lest fifty years old and is smiling happily. Her face is not only highlighted in this picture it really brings out her eyes, which show years of working hard and struggling. Her wrinkles show that she is older, and wiser, but no one would think that she's ninety seven years old. For this photo I told my model to do different posses and she ended up doing this one. I love her hands and how there placed. Not only can we see how she used to work in a clothing factory, we see her favorite ring on her finger, something she always wears. I edited this photo to bring out her face and hands. I changed it  black and white because originally it had a yellow tint, which I did't like. I had my subject sit down because it adds more of her character to the picture. Overall I like how my subject stands out.

Portrait #2
This is a fine art portrait of Nichole.  For this photo I wanted to experiment something different then my first one and still focus on her face. I choose to show a difference between light and dark. I painted this photo black for two reasons. One, I like the way the lighting hits her face and I wanted to emphasize that and bring out the feeling in the picture. Secondly, because in her eyes we can see anger, envy even, and the black highlights that anger. I want the portrait to express helplessness, the idea that this person is very angry, yet she's stuck in time. When someones angry it's known you see red yet, what you actually feel is betrayed by someone.  Usually the person feels cold, dark, mad, they don't see any positives. That feeling is usually dark and I choose to use black trying to represent that. We can see a big difference between her face and the background. I added some contrast to make that more definite and took the redness out of her cheeks to make her look angrier. I stood fairly close to the model getting her profile. I like how her collarbone looks and the way she expressed her emotion.