Also for Digital Darkroom, we are working on editing portraits. Not just color-balancing or sharpening, but brightening eyes, smoothening skin and other edits that appear in fashion portraits. In this shoot I was taking high key portraits with my lovely model Larissa. This picture was a perfect one to use for editing! It’s not really my style, but I liked how it turned out! 🙂
Here are my pre and post-edit 🙂
Portrait Photo this quarter has been my absolute favorite class I’ve taken so far. Professor Turner is so sweet and is great at demonstrating different portrait lighting techniques, in and out of studio. Well this assignment was like a mash-up. He has a set of portable studio lights, and we had to take the lights out and use them somewhere outside. My friend Jacquie and I went out together with the lights and our models. Props to my wonderful model Sarah Hall who managed to smile beautifully with thousand watt lights shining in her eyes!!! We had quite a time with the wind and the umbrellas and setting up the transformer and untangling like, a million cords, and I think the boaters thought we were a bit crazy. Jacquie and I, however, got some beautiful portraits with a beautiful sunset on the lake with the mountains as a background 🙂 Which one do you like best?
And can’t forget! Here is Jacquie’s blog 🙂
At my job, we had a fifties themed dinner, and one of my co-workers, Betsy Ash looked especially adorable and I had a lot of of fun editing this picture and making it look vintage, and her even more darling!
This was one of the craziest assignments I have ever done. We had to take portraits of 36 strangers. Needless to say, this is WAY outside of my comfort zone. Talking to people I don’t know? No thank you. Taking pictures of people I don’t know? Absolutely not! However, I did manage to break out of my comfort zone, and while this assignment was really uncomfortable, I began to feel more and more comfortable as it went on. I ended up really liking some of these pictures, and I think that this was a really valuable experience in showing me that I CAN do something I never thought I’d do in a million years.
Chloe Johnson Photography 