The document provides information about portrait photography techniques and styles. It recommends using indirect window light or shade to avoid harsh direct sunlight. Camera placement in relation to the subject, such as high, low, or eye-level angles, can influence the viewer's perception. Common shot types like close-up, medium, and full-body shots are described. Brief biographies of famous portrait photographers like Steve McCurry, Annie Leibovitz, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and Mario Testino are provided. The work of photographers Lee Jeffries and Pierre Gonnord who capture portraits of marginalized groups is also summarized.

1. PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITS
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2. PORTRAITS
Avoid direct sunlight
Use the shade
Use window light Use indirect light

3. CAMERA ANGLE AND PSYCOLOGICAL EFFECT
Where the camera is placed in relation to the subject, it affects the way the viewer
perceives the subject.
High angle shot: when the camera is
located high (often above head height)
Low angle shot: when the camera is
positioned low (often a knee height),
looking up. It makes the subject look
powerful or threatening.
Bird-eye shot: refers to a shot looking
directly down) on the subject. It can be
used to emphasise the smallness or
insignificance of the subjects.
Horizontal plain: when your scene is set
horizontally, everything seems peaceful.

4. Basic Camera Shot types:
FS: Full shot (or LS: Long shot o WS:
Wide shot): shows subject in location
MS: Medium shot: Shows what
subject is doing
CU: Close-up: shows a particular part
of the subject
MCU: Medium close up: shows
subject in more detail
ECU: Extremely Close-up: shows a
detail of the subject

5. Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry, fotògraf d’Estats Units, mundialment conegut per la seva fotografia
de la nena Afganesa apareguda a la revista National Geographic al 1985. Després d
treballar com a freelance durant anys ara viatja per Àsia fent fotografies, ha fundat
ImageAsia al 2004
http://www.imagine-asia.net/
Per ajudar als nens Afganesos a
tenir escola i educació.

6. Steve McCurry

7. Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz va treballar per la revista Rolling Stone. Després va ser fotògrafa a la revista Vanity F
Va ser la primera dona a exposar les seves fotogràfies a la Galeria Nacional de Washinton D.C. i la ú

8. Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz has an impressive body of work and is widely considered to be one of America’s bes
És potser la fotògrafa(dona) més ben pagada. Va estudiar diferentes coses (música, pintura..) abans

9. Annie Leibovitz

10. Annie Leibovitz

11. Annie Leibovitz

12. Annie Leibovitz

13. Annie Leibovitz

14. Annie Leibovitz

15. Irving Penn
Known for his fashion and portraiture work, but will always be remembered as a portrait ph

16. Irving Penn
Penn was a master of natural light.
Treballava el Bblanc i negre i la teatralitat a les seves fotografies. Va realitzar fotografies a

17. Irving Penn

18. Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon is perhaps the best and one of the most famous portrait photographers of

19. Richard Avedon
Les seves fotografies de moda i retrats van ajudar a definir, a Estats Units, durant l’últim m
També va retratar americans descuneguts sobre fons blanc (In the american west) pel Mu

20. Richard Avedon

21. Richard Avedon

22. Mario Testino
Mario Testino is most known for hist fashion work. He often works with people over a num
Nascut as Perú i afincat a Londres.

23. Mario Testino

24. CAPTURING EPHEMERA
Lee Jeffries

25. CAPTURING EPHEMERA
Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Close to the professional
football circle, this artist starts to photograph sporting events. A chance meeting
with a young homeless girl in the streets of London changes his artistic approach
forever. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young
homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The photographer knew that the young
girl had noticed him but his first reaction was to leave. He says that something
made him stay and go and discuss with the homeless girl. His perception about
the homeless completely changes. They become the subject of his art. The
models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in
the United States: «Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know
each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait.» From
then onwards, his photographs portray his convictions and his compassion to the
world.

26. CAPTURING EPHIMERA
Pierre Gonnord

27. CAPTURING EPHEMERA
Pierre Gonnord captures the marginalized and invisible members of
society in elegant portraits. He has traveled to cities and villages in
France and Spain, the American South, and Japan, finding his
subjects among heavily tattooed Japanese yakuza, urban homeless
youth, the blind, farmers, and coal miners. His lush, large-scale
prints, centered upon the dramatically lit faces of his subjects,
whose heads emerge from inky-black backgrounds, recall portraits
by Rembrandt, Velázquez, and, at times, El Greco. Before he begins
to shoot, Gonnord gets to know his sitters, the better to photograph
them in all their dignity, complexity, and beauty. “Sometimes
hostile, almost always fragile, and very often wounded behind the
opacity of their masks, they represent social realities and sometimes
another concept of beauty,” he says.

28. CAPTURING EPHEMERA
Pierre Gonnord
Rembrant

29. CAPTURING EPHEMERA
Pierre Gonnord Velàzquez

30. Joan Sèculi

31. Let’s take some portraits!