Lynsie Banh

For my picture, I wanted my subject to act professionally instead of doing cute poses or just sitting there. I chose to do a camera pose because since it is photography, I think that this pose really represents that they are ready to take a professional photo of anything around them. The background is a neon type look because doing a solid background to me is basic, and I wanted to incorporate something unique. 

Melodie Manell

Our assignment was to go to the studio to take a portrait picture of our partner and then edit the photo to our liking. I photographed my partner Charles Gaunt in front of the dark backdrop because I wanted him to be the main focus of this picture. For his pose I wanted him to do whatever made him feel comfortable and for him to use whichever facial expression he wanted. I used flat lighting by pointing the lights directly onto the front of his face to make it stand out more. I also decided to use aperture priority to have the focus be only on Charles and to not have any other distractions going on in the background. Although we were given a lot of freedom with this assignment, I think that was the most challenging part because we had to use our creativity to come up with the portrait we wanted. 

Kevin Nakaishi

On the morning of the studio portrait assignment, I decided that I wanted to have a prop in my photo that would make it unique. While searching for something, I found this really cool hat that I thought would look great in my photo. In the studio, I had my partner place her hands on each side of the hat to create symmetry. In addition, I wanted her face to not be in full view, so I placed the light fixture higher to create a shadow. Upon editing the photo, I found that desaturating it gave it more character. I also found that the highlights of her hair looked really good in the colored version of the photo but got lost in the black and white, so I tried to brighten them to the best of my ability. 

Fabian Montellano

I had Jazz be the subject for the newspaper theme, where his whole body, as well as the background was a newspaper. I saw him walk by the wall with the background, and I thought it looked good, so I had him go back and try it out. I really liked the look of it, and it was something different than my other pictures, as adding any background was newly shown to me by Mr. Delfin. I got the idea from what the subject “Jazz” was wearing, and wanted to see whether the newspaper would have him blend in with the background; it did very well. Before I decided to keep the photo, we tried a few different poses, but I didn’t like how it was coming out, so I felt like it wouldn’t work out. After a few more go’s, we tried this last pose with Jazz crossing his arms, looking straight into the camera, and it came out perfect. I had nothing to do with the lighting; it was set up already, and I just stuck with it because it really blended the subject and background well together.