Famous Portraits

Experiment with Lighting

-Use light in different ways to create interest on or in your subject.

Play with Eye Contact

-Have your subject's eyes going somewhere besides right into the lens and use that attention to your advantage.

Shoot Candidly

-Shoot your subject in action not posing; get them moving naturally.

Focus Upon One Body Part – Get Close Up

-Create interest not just in the face of the subject but in their body as well.

Obscure Part of your Subject

--Not giving all of your subject's information (body) ignites the viewers imagination and gets them thinking about your photo.

 

James kimberlin (1980) 

@ richard avedon

courtesy the kunstmuseum-wolfsburg

-I chose this image because it was one of the photos that caught my interest.  It does this based on Richard's style of posing the subject in an interesting manner, such as a head tilt and a relaxed body pose.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, New York, NY, 1941

Arnold Newman

-The reason I picked this photo from Newman's collection is because I like how he implemented the interest in this portrait.  I like how he has the subject in a relaxed pose with the duck on the table and the grapes balancing out the portrait.

Annie Leibovitz

-I chose this photo out of Leibovitz's collection because of mainly how this portrait is organized.  I find interest going towards the figure on the right because of the way he is facing; but also to the figure on the left because of the knife throwing.  I also find the background interesting because you would expect circus acts like knife throwing to be in a nice area.