Still Photo Portraits

My Still Photo Class is almost done for the semester. The following assignment was to take some portraits. When you take someones photograph there are so many decisions to make.

Should you ask the person to look at the camera and smile, not to look, should they be in their best outfit, is their hair just right? None of these things matter as long as you capture their character and feeling in that moment.   

Makayla Lally






Sarah Rehman






Caroline Sullivan



Blake Velasquez

Portrait Series
All of the photographs in our class are in black and white. Even though Blake's photographs are color, they are monochromatic.






Laura Thow






Jonathan Mondragon







Rohan Ganta





Andrew Grasso
Portraits












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