Sunday, 24 October 2010

Project 4 - An active portrait

In this project I was asked to make a portrait of a subject that is involved in an activity.
I chose to photo my youngest son playing with his Lego. I did discuss it with him: "Dan-dan, mummy is going to take your pictures while you're playing". Dan:"OK". But I did not asked him to pose for me in any matter (and if I had asked it wouldn't help me anyway...)
What I did wanted to get out of this session is the natural playing poses that he have. The concentrated face in the blocks, the way he talks like the Lego figures do and the relaxed and fun atmosphere of a Sunday morning playing in pajamas.

I did not use a flash. The lightning was just the sun coming from the window (you can actually see in the photos the times were the sun was full and the times when it was a little cloudy) and a normal tungsten light. I used a high ISO (800) and a fast shutter speed as Dan was moving quite a lot.










Bonus photo:....

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