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What is a portrait? - part 3 of 1 2 3

by Rick Friedman Published 01/12/2016

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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, the founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, a senior researcher and a holder of the Founders Chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), photographed in his office at the Stata Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA on 21 October 2013.

By adding and controlling light, I can obtain the feel I want with my photograph. Sometimes the answer is hard direct light and other times the answer is very soft light. Adding subtle and not so subtle colour to your image makes the point.

This can be done by working with your camera colour balance or adding colour gels to your strobes. I use colour gels, both for colour correction and to add colour to my portraits. I also work with Cinefoil to shape light and create custom patterns to project as backgrounds.

There is no right or wrong way to make the photograph, as long as you get the image you set out to create. Photography is ever evolving and is a nonstop learning experience.


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Professor Stephen Lippard at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA on January 6, 2014. Professor Lippard is the 2014 Priestley Medalist.

There are three requirements in a good photograph, Camera, Lighting and Creativity.


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