theme: lights

photographed using different f stop levels which control the amount of focus and blur in the picture. I learned that the fstop can be adjusted to differ the blur of the pictures.

Expressive Portraits:

Expressive portraits captures and reveals a person’s personality. Often expressed through lighting, props, movement, and colors.

photographer: Laura Zalenga

Environmental Portraits:

Environmental portraits incorporate the subject’s casual environment to express a greater aspect to their lives.

  photographer: Brian Harkin

Symbolic Portraits:

Symbolic portraits reveal subconscious and hidden meanings while provoking a strong sense of empathy.

surreal photographer: Mickeal Aldo

Artist inspiration: Frida Kahlo

I do not like how this came out. It looks very incomplete. This reflects the artist I read about because Frida Kahlo often painted surreal self portraits and I attempted to do the same. If I were to redo this I would retake the original picture with a better background.

Frida Kahlo: