Portraits.

The First four pictures follow a distinct pattern. The first of both groups posing. The pictures still read into parts of their personalities, but by making a facial expression they are putting on a kind of a mask. In each of the second pictures, they took off that mask. They were both in-between shots, when they were subconsciously letting their guard down. Those pictures are the ones that give a sense of vulnerability, and read allow you to look more into their real personalities.

Portraits appear to be the easiest pictures to take, but they are definately the hardest. While the nature of the pictutre is largely under your control, there are more factors to an honest portrait than expected. Getting real emotions out of people is not easy. Also, sometimes to get an honest emotion out of someone, you have to know what that emotion is, which is difficult when

you are not familliar with your model. Our goal for this shoot was to bring real emotions forward.

Motion.

Taking a photograph in motion for me was a challenge to do satisfactorily. To me, a successful motion photo is one that captures a distinct facial expression while distorting the usual suapes in the picture. It was difficult, but the end product is always distinct, and usually very cool.

3x3

While capturing our 3x3 photos, my goal was to capture otherwise bland things in an interesting way, working with new angles, and different perspectives. We were just beginning to learn how to avoid "say cheese" shots. Different perspectives and angles are the way to go about doing that. It was weird to see how second nature taking a straight on, "say cheese" pictures was. After this shoot I had a much better idea of how to take a more interesting photograph.