Double Exposed Portraits

What is what is portrait photography. Portrait Photography is a person or a group of people that tell the expression that the person is giving. Portrait Photography in my opinion is best used to capture a certain moment in the past. I feel this way because of the definition of portrait photography. In the definition it says that portrait photography is used to tell the expression of the person in front of the camera. Another reason why I think this is because when I look at an old picture of me I first try to think of what I was doing back then. This is why I think that Portrait Photography so good for old memories. How can it possibly relate to profile view and silhouetting? I think all of these toppics relate because the all tell a persons mood.

Double exposers are created by taking 3 pictures. You take your main subject. In this case it was me. Behind your subject you place your other 2 images. But you have to make sure that your image of you is on top. You also have to cover the outside of your body with Midtones, Highlights or Shadows. This makes it so that your pictures do not pop up right behind your body. A good time to use a double exposer is when you what the viewer to know the subject and what they like to do.

Well in my first double exposer I just took 2 images and didn't put any effort in it. While in my second double exposer. I had to take 2 images from my life style. For my 2 images my dad took one of me surfing. Then for my other one I took a sunset picture at one of my favorite surf spots. I feel I could have done better in I was not as rushed. I was rushed on my project because I was not here one of the days we worked on our double exposers.

HDR Photography

HDR Photography is taking a bunch of photo's from low exposer to high exposer. HDR is used for taking long exposer shots. What do I like or dislike about it. Well I like it now because I know how to use it. Im sure every one has struggled using HDR at some point wether you know it or not. Have you ever been on your I phone and your about to take a picture? At the lower part of your camera a little thing pops up and says "HDR" and you just think it's nothing so you take a picture of something that doesn't move and your camera doesn't move either. You will get a sick picture. But later that day you take a picture of something moving your picture will most likely come out blurry. So when you are using HDR try not to take pictures of things moving.  

The first step to take an HDR photo is to take as many photos as you can from low exposer to high exposer. A good thing to take note while taking HDR photos is any amount of photos work from low to high exposer. But the more photos you take will work better. For example professional HDR photographers take up to 20 photos from low to high exposure. While in this project we are only taking 7. Which in my mind is a lot.

Well to be honest I did not think this project through a lot. For my landscape photo, my brother was playing soccer at the park. Before I got there in my head I thought that I could find a good landscape photo in less than seconds. Turns out, it took at least 30 minutes to find a good landscape photo. I was looking for a photo that nothing moved in it. I finally ended up taking a picture of a sunset and it turned out good over all. So for my experiment I did on another day. I took a photo of my dad standing in front of my fence. On my first day where I took my landscape I tried to take a photo of my brother and her freaked out and left me with no picture.