Portrature

Portraiture


Application:
Portraiture is simply a photo that captures a person, animal or object which identifies that person but they do not always show the true side of a person. Portrait photos capture certain parts of their personality's in a photo. in previous years artist painted portraits of rich and famous people who requested it in an attempt to capture a part of them showing things like power or wealth and even intelligence.


Portraits tend to capture from the upper chest up to the top of the head but can also display the whole body to show the figure. Portrait photos also tend to be portrait in photo orientation as it can capture the whole body whilst landscape would cut of certain parts of the body. The artist can totally change the look or feel of a person the photographer has total power of how the person will look.


I personally think that Tony Vaccaro captured a great portrait photo of Picasso. Picasso kept posing like other what other photographers would make them do which made the photo less genuine whilst Tony just waited for the right moment to take a photo of him until Picasso wasn't prepared and captured him with a normal pose which is the image below.

Photo by Tony Vaccaro

Context:
Portraiture photography is used in most everyday life but has changed from the past, in the past kings, queens, rich and important people would pay for portraits that would display them with power, wealth or knowledge.


You can find portrait photos on many things in the world such as ID cards as it captures our identity that we can display that we are ourselves. Stamps and money in England also display a image of the queens head.


Most other portrait photos are found in books and photo albums. Larry Clark has a book entitled 'Tusla' which has most of his most known portrait photography.




Techniques:
There can be different techniques to portrait photos but every photographer has their own. There are many ways in which it can be done as well like in a 'natural' environment at home or a totally different approach would be in a photo studio and making it feel less genuine.


Tony Vaccaro would wait for the perfect moment just like his decisive moment photography. Diane Arbus was another Portraiture and captured a famous family, she spent time with the family and captured their different personalities as they were and they looked genuine. One of her photos of the Matthaei daughter's looking really angry with her eyes but not her body.

Photo by Diane Arbus

 What makes this photo so good is that it captures a true geniune moment with this daughter being angry at something, its not fake or posed its just captured as it is.

Photo Journalism

Application
 
What is Photo-Journalism?


Photo Journalism is about capturing certain moments to give insight to the rest of the world who could not see it first hand. When taking a photo it captures the moment capturing just a small moment in what actually happened.


With Photo Journalism the truth isn't as it always seems to appear in a photo as the years have progressed and the technology and software has evolved the ability of most everyday users can manipulate photos to suit what they want to see, what they thought or think is the truth.


Photo Journalism really advanced when the Leica camera was invented it was the first portable camera which capture moments instantly which opened up a type of photography called 'Decisive Moment' one of the most famous photographers who took these shots was Henri Cartier-Bresson his most famous photo was the man jumping over the puddle it was so unique because at any moment that he pressed that camera button it would have totally changed the shot.

This was one of the first Leica cameras

Photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson

World War 2 had lots of Decisive Moment shots taken and the two most known are called Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro, they took very in the moment shots that gave insight into World War 2 giving the war a more in depth sense of reality.


Whilst the truth can be manipulated with photography i personally feel with these war photos they show more indepth looks into things the public wouldnt see.

Photo by Robert Capa

Photo by Tony Vaccaro

Context-

We mainly see photos like these in books and the Internet throughout the history of this part of photography has changed throughout the years, these images above show a more shocking sense of world war 2 which people at home from the war would not see with their own eyes whilst photojournalism now days tend to be less shocking.

You can find various different photo journalism photos on the internet, magazines and even galleries around the country these are great mediums in which these types of photography can be displayed.

Techniques-

I personally feel with Photojournalism its all about being in the moment and capturing the photo at the right moment, it all depends on the Photographer and when he decides to press the button on the camera to take that image because a second later could totally change the photograph.

Intro to photography

My name is Ikin and what photography means to me is a way to capture great moments aswell as being creative with the editing side of photography.

Photo by Charles C Ebbets

Photo by Robert Capa

Photo By Ansel Adams

Photo By Henri Cartier Bresson