Thursday, October 7, 2010

EXAMPLE: Creative Portrait Ideas

I noticed a couple of interesting ideas for portraits that you could try to use or adapt.


TV show advertisement featuring 2 faces, though the same face shown in this way might be even more interesting.










Separate closeups arranged in the shape of the body.















Here's the concept in the form of a diagram.









Use of a Lens Baby to shift/tilt focus as shown in this example from Craig Tanner's Light Diary.









Chuck Close style close up and symmetric lighting with very shallow depth of field.











Nice example by Ela Hawes using multiple exposure and moody, dramatic lighting on the face. Most likely this was assembled from multiple images in Photoshop. 

2 comments:

  1. I really like the tilt shift focus!

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  2. A comment specifically about the Lensbaby. Would I be correct in assuming it works under the same principle as shifting the focal plane on the view camera with swing and tilt?

    Very cool.

    Also, I like the concept of piecing together a portrait using separate portraits.

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