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Research of portrait photographing

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 I would like to talk about Annie Leibovitz in this research as her works are very inspiring. She is an American portrait photographer best known for her engaging portraits, particularly of celebrities. She is good at using feature subjects in setting and poses. She is worked for Rolling Stone magazine for 10 years. One of her well-known portraits is her Polaroid photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono for the magazine's cover, taken five hours before Lennon's murderer.She is also got an honour to take portrait of Queen Elizabeth. It would be mainly focused in this research. For the first take of the portrait, she prefer Queen Elizabeth to less dressy. She asked Queen to remove her tiara in order to make the image simpler. Based on this image shoot in the Buckingham Palace garden, we can see that the Queen is not wearing a tiara. However, we can also see that she is a queen . Probably because of her pose or facial expression, and how Annie Leibovitz used of light and shadow . The col...

First attempt of using medium format camera

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It is our first time using a medium format camera. It is called Holga 120N. 120 roll film would be used. As I knew that our next assignment is to make portraits, I decided to use this camera to make some portraits as a practice. This is the contact sheet that I made. I tried so many times to make it reach maximum black in printing process, but it is failed. I realized that it is under-exposed. I should have include more lighting in it. But still, I have tried interact with my model, and asked him to pose at different angle. I have learnt a lesson by making these photos This is the result .