Project #2, Portrait.

For this second assignment we were to take portrait photos. Since I was little I was always so skeptical about the term 'portrait' because the cliche definition of portrait revolves around sitting in a studio, big flashy lights, with a photographer telling you to move your chin slightly to the left, not too much though. Taking photography in high school, it was the same thing: when we worked on portraiture, we went to a studio and were taught how to light and set up the set. I was horrible at it. I didn't like to do it. So from then on when I heard 'portrait' it quite honestly scared me because I knew I disliked them so much. 

Portraits are so much more than sitting in a studio taking yearbook pictures though. Portraits do not have to be set up in a studio, but can be captured anywhere, anytime. They can be candid, facial, whole body, one person or many, animals, anything your mind can think of. The photographs I chose for this project involve different types of portrait. 

The first, a non-traditional portrait of a whole scene and event. Instead of just including the 'main' person, the scene shows who is involved. 

The second, a self-potrait. This image I decided to include because I saw an emotion in me that I didn't realize that I had right then. It just reminded me how a moment captured in a split second can show so much. 

The third I chose because this takes portrait completely out of the box. I don't like that idea that the cliche portrait idea is of strictly people and so this captures Charlie in such an almost anthropomorphic way. He has his blanket, just waken up, groggy "let me go back to sleep" look...it is just intriguing.