PORTRAITS, Part 1 (Rule of Thirds)

In-class Portraits Practice:
-Develop/post/drive all SIX

Weekend Portraits:
-TEN images (categories).

PROJECT #12: PORTRAITS, Part 1

DIRECTIONS.

• Make 10+ different photographs of one person: 
• Compose using the RULE OF THIRDS
• At least one person must be over the age of 21. 
• Bring all images to next class. 

IMAGES TO MAKE:

1. A serious expression
2. A smiling(ish) expression
3. The subject looking over their shoulder back at the camera.
4. From above (Your subject looking up at the camera=you are above your subject in some way)
5. Half of the face only (put one of their eyes in the intersections of rule of thirds)
6. From the shoulders up (their head in one of the intersections of rule of thirds)
7. Full body in the composition (pull back so that your subject is entirely in the composition.
8. Your idea.
9. Your idea.
10. Your idea.

WHAT IS RULE OF THIRDS?
(Review: You are to place the pivotal/main subject matter in one of the intersections.)

Here is a great Link. CLICK HERE.


A graphic of a complex Rule of Thirds composition: