ASSIGNMENT: Portrait

ASSIGNMENT: Portrait
	Objective: * The student will use a digital camera to photograph a person and practice digital portrait fixes using Adobe Photoshop. I will also be looking at the portrait for creative impact and handeling of image elements. Create your portrait. Overview: Shoot a portrait with a digital camera in the studio or on location. Download the images to the computer. Choose the image that best conveys what you as the photographer are trying to say about your subject. Remember, we can “read” a picture just like we read the words in a story. Think about the setting who you are photographing. Do they have great character? Are they complex thinkers? How will you convey that in the images?
	Things to think about: • These are some things to think about when making your image (Consider clothing, facial expression, background, place, lighting, etc.) • Think about what can we discover about this person just by looking at his or her portrait? • What does the facial expression tell us about how the person is feeling at this moment, or what the artist/photographer wants to suggest that the person is feeling? • What can we say about the person’s social status, time period, and private likes and dislikes by looking at his or her attire? • What kind of life do you think this person leads? Does he or she work? If so, as what? Are there any props that give us clues about a profession? • What does the environmental setting tell us about this person? • Does this person seem like someone you would like to meet? Why or why not? • Who do you think this portrait was made for? Why? Where do you think it was displayed?

Turn in: •2 retouched portraits •Printed, 6x9 inches •Resolution, 240PPI •Typed page telling me techniques used •Layered Files on CD	I will be looking for a retouched portrait focusing on the following: Most photographs will need the following: -removal of in camera dust or dead pixels from the image -removal of distractions from the background (you could blur or change the background to B&W or a duotone) -removal of blemishes, -removal/softening of hot spots (shiny areas: nose, forehead, etc) -removal of dark circles -softening of lines in the face -softening of age spots -whitening of the teeth and/or eyes -removal of red eye (there should not have been red eye) I will be looking for two of these or other extra enhancements. Explore the internet to find additional looks. -create a soft filter effect (skin softening) -a vignette effect -color the hair, change the eye color, change the lip color -sharpen the eyes -enlarge the eyes -dodgeing and burning to sculpt the image -liquify

	A few tutorials to get you inspired Mapping A Texture To A Face In Photoshop http://www.photoshopessentials.com/photo-effects/texture-map/ Photoshop Tutorial: Professional Make-up and Face Slimming http://www.pxleyes.com/tutorial/photoshop/1395/Professional-Make-up-and-Face-Slimming.html Glamour Model http://www.eyesontutorials.com/articles/40/1/Glamour-Model/Page1.html Photoshop Roadmap http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Tag/%20face/1 http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-tutorials/Photo-retouching/Most-popular/1/ Amazing Retouching And Photo Enhancing Tutorials In Photoshop By Dainis Graveris on March 31, 2009 http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/tutorials/amazing-retouching-tutorials-in-photoshop/