Environmental Portraiture Research Assignment

Environmental Portraiture Discussion
Which photographers did you find that created dynamic subject/background combinations? Dan Winters has really good examples of environmental portraiture but some pictures (like the ones I put as ''bad examples'') are not. An example of good portrait is the picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger because it tells us exactly what kind of person he is and his position. August Sanders also did great portraits with everything in the picture adding to the subject. The picture of the 2 kids holding hands clearly inform the views that they are rich kids. Their clothes and the house let us know that they are part of a rich family. I really like the picture of Dennis Welsh of the cranberry field man. I like the colors, the expression of the man and the sky.We feel that the man like what he does and the warm colors of the picture really help to make us feel this way.  


Which ones do not: the background is just an elaborate prop, the background is too forced or it looks fake due to photoshop manipulation? Like I said earlier, Dan Winters has really nice environmental portraits but I find that some portraits don't fit with the backgrounds. For instance, the picture of the Queen in the field is really good, but I find that the location chosen doesn't fit with what we know about royalty. The Queen has a gorgeous clean dress, and she is in a field associated with work, and dirt. The pictures of Rineke Dijkstra of the girl in bathing suit doesn't tell us much about the girl. We know that she is a swimmer just by looking at what she is wearing but the picture is taken from a serie of people in bathing suit in front of the ocean which doesn't tell us more on everyone apart from the swimming part.


Bad Examples of Environmental Portraiture

Dan Winters

Dan Winters

Dan Winters

Dan Winters

Rineke Dijkstra

Jeanloup Sieff

David Lachapelle

David Lachapelle

David Lachapelle

David Lachapelle

Good Examples of Environmental Portraiture

Shelby Lee Adams

Shelby Lee Adams

Cynthia Perez

Dan Winters

Dennis Welsh

Gene Smirnov

Chris Straley

August Sander

August Sander

August Sander

Assignment 2-Andrew Zuckerman Emulation

This is my emulation of Andrew Zuckerman's photography. 

Andrew Zuckerman (www.andrewzuckerman.com)

(Pour Emilie Gaudreault :D )

Workshop-Photoshop Editing

(Sorry for the display of my post, I really have a hard time to fix it..)

High Key Glow Effect

Step 1: Select The Highlights With The Color Range Command. 

Step 2: Copy The Highlights To A New Layer. 

Step 3: Change The Blend Mode Of "Layer 1" To Screen. 

Step 4: Apply The Gaussian Blur Filter. 

Step 5: Duplicate "Layer 1". 

Step 6: Combine The Two Highlights Layers Into A Layer Group. 

Step 7: Add A Layer Mask To The Layer Group. 

Step 8: Select The Brush Tool. 

Step 9: Set Your Foreground Color To Black. 

Step 10: Paint Over Areas To Hide The Glow Effect

Ghosting

Step 1: Copy The Background Layer. 

Step 2: Desaturate The Background Copy Layer. 

Step 3: Copy The "Desaturated" Layer. 

Step 4: Apply The Motion Blur Filter. 

Step 5: Add A Layer Mask To The "Motion Blur" Layer. 

Step 6: Paint With Black On The Layer Mask To Reveal Some Of The Face. 

Step 7: Merge All Of The Layers Onto A New Layer. 

Step 8: Apply The "Diffuse Glow" Filter To The Merged Layer. 

Step 9: Add A Solid Color Fill Layer. 

Step 10: Change The Blend Mode Of The Fill Layer To "Color" And Lower The Opacity

Metallic Toning Effect

Step 1. Open your image in Photoshop. 

Step 

2. Duplicate the image. Set the duplicate image layer to Overlay.

Step 3. With the duplicate image layer selected, go to Filter > Other > High Pass. Sharpen the image a little bit, so you can see some details on the skin tone. If you already have a high resolution image, no need to set the radius too high.

Step 4. Go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. 

Step 5. Next, go to Image > Mode > Duotone. Select Quadtone on the Type dropdown menu. Then, click the 'Load' button on the right.

A window will open, select PANTONE(R) QUADTONES folder. And select the file Bl 541 513 5773  and click Load. 

Step 6. Now, change the mode back to RGB. Go to Image > Mode > RGB Color.

Step 7. Duplicate the image. And set the duplicate layer to 'Color Burn'. Set the opacity to 20%.

Step 8. Go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Curves. Make an S-shape curve. The steep of your curve is up to you, whatever looks good on your image. 

9. Now go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Level. Adjust the level.