How to shoot a portrait with the feeling and life

A lot of friends will put most of the mind and focus on shooting techniques when they meet portrait photography for the first time. Such as aperture, shutter, scene, and so on ... ... of course, it is necessary to master the basic techniques and skill. how can a good martial arts be displayed if their own weapons are not used well adequately.
However, portrait photography have always been an art composition so that whether the portrait photography can impress the viewers or not , the feeling plays a very important role. We do not want others to look at our own works by glancing them, as they will be forgotten soon. It seems not enough to just make an effort on the above mentioned basic technology,. Some say the fundamental definition of portrait photography is to portray the most real aspect of the subject, which not just mean the appearance, but the subject's personality, characteristics and internal. To photograph and display a living, feeling and moving portrait, in addition to the photography in some extent with the outside, we must capture the most real, most natural aspect and characteristic .
As a result, I spent a lot of time on study and test, how can the personality of the person be captured! But from the perspective of human psychology, there have been both sides or even multi faces of people’s personality, and each one is different. It is almost impossible to display every side of characteristic of the photographed , so we can only photo his characteristic and in-hearted feeling naturally just at that moment! How to accomplish this?
I believe there is no specific way but here to share one of the following methods I often apply for:

Every time before I am going to shoot portrait, first, i will get further communication with the photographed, which leads to a better understanding of those photographed as well as knowledge of the other side’s expectation of what kinds of photos to be taken. The first thought is often from the real personality of the other side , so the photographer should try to meet and reach the requirements of the other side.
Secondly, to set a theme of the subject person’s characteristic. The theme is good or bad, whether fits the conditions for shooting also need to make gradual progress from the experiences. As a media , in addition to portrait and images , music also can lead a good life and feeling. Select the music in advance for the theme, listen to the other party sufficiently before shooting, if necessary, the music can be played while the scene is shot. Let the music bring out each other's natural emotions, both joy and sorrow ,this is why a lot of friends in the commercial photography like broadcast music while shooting in the studio. More praise, give confidence to the other side and relax, then let the other side give the rein freely when getting into the atmosphere. Try to avoid continuously changing the subject's actions, because each subtle body language might reflect each other's characteristic and inner world.
In short, people portrait is to show a person. Portrait usually focuses on the person's face, facial expression or demeanor. Today , taking pictures has become the most recognized mode of modeling a portrait which is usually sculpture or painting.
More infor in: http://www.obolog.com/gdportraits

Analyse of world famous paintings

Post-impressionist is not the period after impressionism. In other words, post-impressionist is not impressionism, but is an art faction, with different nature from impressionism, and generated after the impressionist. Post-Impressionism includes many artists, the main representative is Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin. The fundamental feature of post-impressionist is that it reflects the true and natural light and color through portrait, and proposes truly perform the artist's subjective opinion on objective things.
Cezanne has a lofty position in art history, was the first modern Western artist, known as the 'father of modern art'. Cezanne made a very important artistic point of view, which has laid the theoretical foundation of Western modernism. The idea is that art is not the real performance of color and appearance of the objective things, but the real performance of the artist's subjective opinion on objective things. Cezanne’s one piece of work, "Madame Cezanne in the Greenhouse"depicts his wife's head of oval shape, neck, chest and arms of cylindrical shape, the lower body is of a cone.
In the post-impressionist, the most important artist was Van Gogh who was an outstanding artist, in his own work, he showed himself and his life, inner feelings. His works, whether still life, "Sunflower", character self-portrait "The Van Gogh cut his ears", or landscape paintings "Star sky", are filled with his love of life, has resorted to intense feelings of his heart, not only his projection , avatar, and sometimes he even blatantly illustrated himself.
Van Gogh’s facing dazzling colors, has resulted in a strong emotion, kept him driving the painting, and even made him forget he was painting. He described in a letter his creation status when the inspiration hits, he said: "The feeling is sometimes so strong that people simply do not know ... ... strokes at work follow continuously, like a paragraph of words or words in a letter. "In short, to use color expressing emotion, is Van Gogh's most important art point of view.
In Van Gogh's life, the most important works of art are in the final years of life, finished in the broiling sunlight, "Sunflower" was the work during this period. "Sunflower" is not a traditional still life portrait decoration describing natural flowers, but a painting to express the sun, a song praising the vitality of the sun. In the painting, the stemmed sunflower was in full bloom in the sun, as if the "bursting out flame in the background." The way of Van Gogh’s expressing sunflowers, also with ingenuity, he adopted a simplified portrayal way to describe images, making the picture have a rich sense of plane and decoration. The general appearance of the picture is yellow and orange tone, the delicate strokes of green and blue outlines the petals and stems. Strong color point on the grain has striking effect. The bold and unrestrained, firm strokes, by different movements, seek different structures and colors in bright and brilliant background, make the blossoming sunflowers dazzling, hot and imaginative, just as Van Gogh general’s vigor emotions like fire and strong artistic temperament. For Van Gogh, the sunflower was the best work to express his thought.
Sadly, the post-Impressionist painters were recognized in society long after they died. However, they jointly opened the door to modern art, the twentieth century had a lot of modern art concepts with the influence of their creative thinking, artistic concepts, for example: Fauvism, Cubism and so on.
View more in:Wordpress.com Livejournal.com Tumblr.com

9 Tips for shooting portrait(B)

1. Influence and interaction to each other
The most important part of human activities should? be communication, in the process of which varies interesting shot can be captured and can be made into very good portrait. For example the kids are? playing, talking to each other... etc. If your models know that your are shooting them, then you need to be a little patient to wait for a while? until they neglect you. When they are totally relaxed, it's you best chance to capture a good photo.
2. Lights
Amazing lights can make the photo looks more vivid and can give the eye more catchlights.Use natural lights as far as possible.Use reflector panel or flash to make your portrait photo more vivid when the natural light is not bright enough.
3. To capture
Many great pictures appear out of blue, only if you are a good observer and ready to shoot all the?time can you capture those photos.
4. Eye contact
Eyes are the windows to your soul, which can show emotions and attitude of people. Let your model? look straight to the camera, and you can get very good pictures with a lot of personality, and also the model's temperament can be read by the audience.
5. Change the composition
The ordinary composition for portrait photo is vertical. If you want to diversify your photo style, try to make the composition horizontal. In case you are not familiar with horizontal compositions, i'd advise you to watch some movies to learn how those directors dealt with the portrait frames in a fixed horizontal picture.
6. Ornament
You can add some small ornaments into your picture and you'll find the photo was lit up immediately. This tip is essential to children photos because ornaments works great to make the picture more harmonious.

More infor in:Globalzoo.de Wordpress.com

World Famous Paintings- Frank Dicksee

Frank Dicksee Raphael Painting British Artists (1835 - 1928) Frank Dicksee is good at woman portrait, and he grew up in an artistic family, his father, brother and sister Margaret (Margaret) are well-known painter, and families living in the Bloomsbury district of London.
His initial art education from his father, in 1870, before entering the Royal College. he is taught by the famous senior scholars , such as Leighton and Millais. Frank Dicksee was a star student and won a lot of praise and rewards. Now many other artists with an early case, he spent a lot of time drawing book illustrations. In mid 1870, his work was showed by members of the Royal Art at the famous Grosvenor Gallery exhibition. 1877 called "coordination" of the paintings in the Art Institute's show brought tremendous honor for Frank Dicksee. His portraits began to be a private purchase of collection.
1881 Frank Dicksee was elected as a member of the Royal Art. And within the next decade the honor has been to maintain . Most of his oil paintings is a dramatic story of the history and legends. He also take the perfect performance in painting portraits of elegant and stylish woman known. perfect aristocratic make women feel fashionable to a portrait of Frank Dicksse model. He also has a lot of landscape painting. He became in the nineteenth century, one of the artists live longer. But in the early twentieth century he was not happy.
1924 Frank Dicksee was elected as president of the British Royal Academy. In 1925 he was awarded the Royal knighthoods. Died 1928. He was born in an artistic family, was elected a member of the British Royal Society of Arts in 1881,and in 1924 was elected president of the British Royal Academy. The performance of his paintings to portraits of elegant woman his paintings is known for he performance of elegant woman, there are many landscape works.
View more in:Obolog.com