Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Day 1: Test Your Skills - Pro Portrait Challenge

Welcome Digital Photo Students!

Todays photo challenge: Create the most professional portrait you can create with the tools and skills available to you. How easy is it to create professional looking results with a cell camera or your own novice skills? Let's find out!

- Pair up and work together to find the best method, framing, lighting and positioning for a professional looking headshot/portrait.

- Focus on making composition that is complimentary to your subject, look at the background colors, where light falls, how the shadows look on the face, etc.

- Teams or pairs have 20 minutes to shoot and 20 minutes to edit

- Download your image onto your school computer and get ready to edit it in our next lesson...


Portrait of Cole, by Seth Wilson (2017)
How do you get genuine smiles, good composition and perfect portraits? Practice is the key. The results of your first photo challenge may vary, but showing growth in skills is the goal. Today we set our benchmarks.


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