More enviromental shots

Here are more environmental portraits.

Jessica after doing her intervention piece of art in an abandoned building

Bike shop on Parc Ave.

Hat workshop at Boul. St Laurent

Quarterly & Drawn Library on Bernard St.

Depanneur Bernard

At Work

First try of enviromental self-portrait

Enviromental Portraits

Here is my environmental self-portrait. After trying a couple of places I decided to do it in my room.




At first it was really difficult to me to ask people who were working to pose a few seconds for me, since I am more used to "steal" candid images, but after a couple of portraits I began to become more confident about it and now I plan to continue doing environmental portraits of people working in my neighborhood.

Store on Parc Ave.

Web Research - Portrait

For this assignment I chose "Marta" by Andrzej Dragan, a polish photographer who is famous for his portraits. In this portratit of Marta, a model suffering from anorexia, he deals with a serious subject in a respectful way. Dragan shows her in a dignifying pose, even though she's exposing her problems. The contrast between the calm and beautiful face and the sick body is what is more striking and the viewer can help thinking about the unreal beauty parameters that rule our world.

In what refers to the visual aspect of the photograph the selection of colors which give the sensation of tranquility but at the same time some feeling of decay, like if this was shot in some Egyptian ruins. As I mentioned before the pose is dignifying, a classic pose giving emphasis to the hands.

More moments

I just want to share some moments that didn't make it because they were took a week or two before the assignment started, because the "moment" was not what attracted me the most or the composition wasn't good.

Exercise

Some shots that weren't shown from last tuesday's exercise. I really enjoyed the horror-like shots and I wish to revisit that theme in future. And thanks to my two excellent models, actually they were the ones who should get the credit for the photos.

Moments

I must admit that I didn't invest as much time as I'd wished but here are the results. Not strong shots but I think at least there were some moments captured.




Last weekend I went to the Juste Pour Rire museum to see the World Press Photo expo and I found that there was another exposition being shown at the same time who caught my attention named "Anthropography". The exposition deals with delicate themes and the images are often shocking and very graphic. In the photo a mother tries to explain the photos to her young daughter who maybe was exposed to this kind of images for the first time in her life. Due to low light conditions the image is a little blur and with some noise.



The lack of time forced me to follow the suggestion of taking pictures of people we know. My friend and his children were watching TV but they were really tired, so after some minutes it was easy to catch them in this position.



I photographed this old couple on a Saturday morning on Parc avenue. I like their expressions, tough I find the background too distracting.

Low light portraits

Here are some photos of the Studio session with bad light. It was difficult for me to do this exercise not only because the low light made it hard to get sharp images, but also because it's one of the first times somebody models for me. So here are the results and thanks to Sarah for being so patient.

Using tripod

Hand held