PLAN FOR PORTRAIT ASSINGNMENT

1.) ALTER YOUR PERSPECTIVE:
Most portraits are taken with the camera at (or around) the eye level of the subject. While this is good common sense – completely changing the angle that you shoot from can give your portrait a real WOW factor.

2.) EXPERIMENT WITH LIGHTING:
Another element of randomness that you can introduce to your portraits is the way that you light them. There are almost unlimited possibilities when it comes to using light in portraits.
Side-lighting can create mood, backlighting and silhouetting your subject to hide their features can be powerful.

3.)TAKE A SERIES OF SHOTS:
Switch your camera into ‘burst’ or ‘continuous shooting’ mode and fire off more than one shot at a time.
In doing this you create a series of images that could be presented together instead of just one static image.
This technique can work very well when you’re photographing children – or really any active subject that is changing their position or pose in quick succession.

MY SUBJECT:
I chose my subject to be my friend Amber or i want a picuture of people laughing together almost like a family momment.

WHERE I AM SHOOTING:
I want to take the photo of my subject at the big rock in front of the cafeteria by the big tree. My plan for this portrait is to take a picture of her from an angle ( possibly from a down angle ) and i either want her looking straight at the camera or looking out of the frame.

TO MAKE THE SHOOT SUCCESSFUL:
To make this shoot successful I want to take the picture at an angle and i want a series of photos to almost make it look as if you were there during the whole photo shoot time.