Portrait Photography Research Paper
Portrait photography is a type of photography where a person or a group of people express feelings, emotions and mood etc. In the photo, the main focus of the picture is to capture the persons face although background and the entire body may also be included. Portrait photography can entertain any age.
□ UNITY: Unity is achieved by the use of balance and repetition, unity simply meaning that everything belongs together when compared by two separate things. □ BALANCE: Can be symmetrical or asymmetrical depending if left or right side is identical or not. Items can be balanced by volume, size, location of subjects and even colour to balance out a picture so you do not get pulled towards one part of the picture. □ HARMONY: There are certain types of harmony. The main objective of harmony is to make it …show more content…
more visually appealing by different strategies. One of these is colour co-ordination. □ CONTRAST: Contrast helps lead attention to the focal point; it can help for darker spots and places.
□ REPETITION: Repetition helps by reducing the feel of randomness and creates a feel of order and majority f the times an effect that grabs your attention. □ VARIETY: Variety is used a lot to grab attention to something different, it creates a look of unique. □ EMPHASIS: This is used to create attention towards the focal point, for example, the more you want a location to have attention that spot will receive more emphases. □ PROPORTION (SCALE): Taking a photo must be proportioned to a right amount to create a fair photo and not make anything seem awkward, for example, depending on how much space there is depends on how much of the picture the focus object takes up. □ FUNCIONALITY: A picture must have good functionality □ ATTRACTION: Depending on how good you use colour, space and other components depends on how much attention you will attract, which is what you want. □ ARTISTIC UNITY: This can be related to a story, you only tell one story at a time to avoid confusion etc. same goes for how you set up your
photos □ GENUINENESS IN MEDIA AND FORM: Using the real things are a lot more interesting then fakes. For example like using real wood to make chairs would look better then faux wood. □ PROXIMITY: This creates harmony depending on how you use it, like if you put a whole lot of different furniture together it wouldn’t look as nice as furniture that do match and look alike. □ COLOUR THEORY: Using the colour theory is important; this depends on how the person feels while looking at the colour. For example, red presents war or love and blue presents cool and chilled, this all creates the persons emotion and feel.
□ SPACE: Space can have two dimensions such as a floor, or three such as a room. Space is provided area for a photo for a certain purpose. □ LINE: A mark made by a moving point is a line (pencil, brush etc.), the edges of shapes create lines. Lines and curves are the building blocks for two dimensional shapes □ COLOUR: Colour is seen by the way light reflects off a surface, it is used to create an illusion of depth □ SHAPE: □ TEXTURE: □ FORM: □ VALUE: □ TYPE:
□ UNITY: Unity is achieved by the use of balance and repetition, unity simply meaning that everything belongs together when compared by two separate things. □ BALANCE: Can be symmetrical or asymmetrical depending if left or right side is identical or not. Items can be balanced by volume, size, location of subjects and even colour to balance out a picture so you do not get pulled towards one part of the picture. □ HARMONY: There are certain types of harmony. The main objective of harmony is to make it …show more content…
more visually appealing by different strategies. One of these is colour co-ordination. □ CONTRAST: Contrast helps lead attention to the focal point; it can help for darker spots and places.
□ REPETITION: Repetition helps by reducing the feel of randomness and creates a feel of order and majority f the times an effect that grabs your attention. □ VARIETY: Variety is used a lot to grab attention to something different, it creates a look of unique. □ EMPHASIS: This is used to create attention towards the focal point, for example, the more you want a location to have attention that spot will receive more emphases. □ PROPORTION (SCALE): Taking a photo must be proportioned to a right amount to create a fair photo and not make anything seem awkward, for example, depending on how much space there is depends on how much of the picture the focus object takes up. □ FUNCIONALITY: A picture must have good functionality □ ATTRACTION: Depending on how good you use colour, space and other components depends on how much attention you will attract, which is what you want. □ ARTISTIC UNITY: This can be related to a story, you only tell one story at a time to avoid confusion etc. same goes for how you set up your
photos □ GENUINENESS IN MEDIA AND FORM: Using the real things are a lot more interesting then fakes. For example like using real wood to make chairs would look better then faux wood. □ PROXIMITY: This creates harmony depending on how you use it, like if you put a whole lot of different furniture together it wouldn’t look as nice as furniture that do match and look alike. □ COLOUR THEORY: Using the colour theory is important; this depends on how the person feels while looking at the colour. For example, red presents war or love and blue presents cool and chilled, this all creates the persons emotion and feel.
□ SPACE: Space can have two dimensions such as a floor, or three such as a room. Space is provided area for a photo for a certain purpose. □ LINE: A mark made by a moving point is a line (pencil, brush etc.), the edges of shapes create lines. Lines and curves are the building blocks for two dimensional shapes □ COLOUR: Colour is seen by the way light reflects off a surface, it is used to create an illusion of depth □ SHAPE: □ TEXTURE: □ FORM: □ VALUE: □ TYPE: