Self Portraits

When I first started working on this project and began constructing my photographs, I wasn’t quite sure how I wanted to portray each objective. Since I wasn’t sure on how to do this, I began making my photographer take random shots of me. As it turned out, my Element, Light, and Rule of Thirds photos portray an emotion of loneliness. It wasn’t my intention to surface this emotion and coincidently in my Light photograph, the bars assisted in the mood.
The only thing I made sure to think about while I was composing these pictures was the contrast. I made sure to have white whites and black blacks and different shades of gray. In all of my pictures I tried my best to not pose for the camera. I wanted them to be “natural” and portray a less “posed” feeling, which is why I had my photographer just randomly shoot. I find my Rule of Thirds photograph to possess the strongest composition because it has a strong focal point that immediately draws your attention.
I think my Personal Prop photograph could have been better because the photo contains plenty of grays but hardly any whites and blacks. However, in the other three I find them to possess a great deal of whites, blacks, and grays. I’m not sure which pictures were to set which ISO’s but I did play around with that function a bit.
For the most part, I find the contrast in my photos to be excellent and I also think the compositions in my pictures were pretty well done. My favorite shot overall is my Rule of Thirds and this is because it just immediately draws me straight to the focal point and grasps my attention.

.:.Self Portraits.:.