Portrait photography

PaPa

PaPa

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Hey all. Had trouble debating if i should putthis in lighting or here. Meh, well see how this works out.


I have a project for my image 1 class ( love film school ) involving taking 10 portrait photo's from a film camera ( he wants to make slides ). Now I am doing what i can to search around and find some famous photographers, beautiful portraits, libraries and so on, but i wanted to know based on the immense knowledge on these boards, if anyone would want to share some of their knowledge and reply with some great names of artists i should look up. I would appreciate any help i can get! Thank you!

( im off in the clouds today, thanks for that mods! )
 
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For a classic old Hollywood style check out George Hurrell.
More contemporary, Annie Liebovitz and Robert Mapplethorpe.
 
Alfred SteiglitzHorst
Cecil Beaton
Edward Weston
Julia Margaret Cameron
Dorthea Lange
Frederick Day
Robert Mapplethorpe
Gregory Heisler
Thomas Struth
Arnold Newman
Annie Leibowitz
Joel Meyerowitz
Penn
Richard Avedon
Mark Seliger
Karsh of Ottawa
Phillipe Halsmann
Herb Ritts
Matthew Ralston
Mary Ellen Mark
Jock Sturges
Nicholas Nixon
Elsa Dorfman
Cecil Beaton
George Hurrell
August Sanders

I cannot, however, take credit for any of these names. I googled them and only know a handful of names and looked at the work of most all of them. But, why not take a look at all of the work of these established photogs?....
 
ya, no i defintely have seen a good handful of those, but was just looking to soak up as much as possible in order to get ready for this. After in information received today, i will need to shoot in color and not B&W, which makes things more difficult for me. Which is also why i need to look at as many as possible because the majority of them that i find are B&W. Thanks again!
 
Could you guys post some of YOUR portrait shots ( not necessarily of you, but your work )

there is a huge amount of talent on these boards and i would love to get inspired by what you ladies and gents have created.
 
a portrait i took this year for a client:
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alrighty, don't rip my ass off for it, but i'm using kodak B&W 400CN film with a 70-300mm zoom. i think i was at 200 here. tried to keep the aperture around 8 (the client was wary that using film wouldn't be 'sharp' enough, so i prvoed em wrong)

one of only like 4 film example i have on my comp right now. I have a nicer stock portrait if you want to see it.
 
nice. damn i wish we could ues black and white. color is another ball game. one i dont feel ready for.
 
here is a grab from some video i took today. I set up aback drop and put a few lights in the room incasei get inspired to give something i try.

i might do replicate this when i take my slide stills, what do you guys think?

only post was glow in the hilights as slight darkenning of shadows.

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Hey Papa, for a lot of great color Portrait work, check out the Nikon thread to see Alveraz's stuff. Here are a few I shot for a similar assignment, I had to tell a story in 16 frames.

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