Research of portrait photographing

 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 colour using in this image is in dark tone,  gives me the mood of solemn .

For an other reference, in this image Annie Leibovitz picked a long gold dress and a fur coat for the Queen. She is well using natural light which shed on the Queen left face and her gold dress. As a result, the Queen looks more energetic. I like how she used feature objects to make the image better. For example, the queen is hand held the fur coat so this image looks much more energetic.