portraits and self portraits

magazine cover images

my favorite cover

"Just before her intimate photos were hacked--and splashed across the Web--Jennifer Lawrence posed topless for Patrick Demarchelier for the cover of Vanity Fair's November issue. As part of the accompanying cover story, she decided to break her silence about one of the biggest scandals in Hollywood this year. The Guardian called her salvo "the end of the 'shamed starlet.'" So strong was the outpouring of social-media support for Lawrence's stance that The New York Times reported on the fact "fans took to Twitter to applaud her." Demarchelier's striking photos of the Hunger Games actress also helped spark a thoughtful debate about a woman's right to reveal her body. Lawrence (and the V.F. cover) made her message loud and clear: "It's my body, and it should be my choice." 

This is my favorite because it shows that she is a powerful woman and that she is still strong even after what got leaked of her. The light of this portrait is even and there is no shadow. There is no uneven parts of this picture it is equal and they used a background that was colorful and creative while not taking the attention away from the subject. Her necklace also doesn't take the attention away from her it just adds to her being the subject. 

best magazine covers 2015

1. formal
2. formal
3. environmental
4. environmental
5. informal
6. informal
7. environmental
8. formal
9. informal
10. informal
11. formal
12. formal
13. formal
14. informal
15. formal
16. formal
17. informal
18. informal

magazine tips

5 things I should be thinking of:

1. Use aesthetic backgrounds
2. Use an aesthetic background while using a background that makes your subject pop out
3. Use different angles and lighting
4. Use colors
5. Don't use too much emotion but still use emotion

fashion photography

5 changes in the models face:
1. The make up covered all of her face so it looked different
2. On the computer, they moved her eyes down
3. They made her eyes bigger
4. They made her head more circular
5. They made her lips have more of a form or curve

5 changes in the models body:
1. They made her stomach skinnier
2. They made her legs longer
3. Her skin got lighter
4. They made her neck longer and her face more circular
5. They gave her butt more for a formation or made it look thicker

Changes made on the computer:
1. They made her legs skinnier
2. They made her upper body smaller including her arms
3. They made her boobs bigger and stomach smaller
4. They got rid of her wrinkles or lines
5. They made her body skinner so her boobs and butt would be more noticeable
6. She had short hair but they drew longer hair on her
7. They added volume to her hair
8. Her fingers got skinnier
9. Her skin got lighter

4. I do not think it is acceptable because you are completely changing their bodies and face. It's another way of saying your body isn't good enough, we are going to completely change it to make it more attractive to people. It's okay to add volume to their hair or make their skinner tanner or a little lighter, but to completely change their body and make they look like a Barbie doll is not okay. You are setting higher expectations for girls to follow to be pretty when really we don't have any expectations to follow in the first place.

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6.It is okay to change some of their features, like I said before, it is okay to change their skin color a little bit or add volume to their hair or make their face more clear. That's okay, but to completely change the way they look by shaping their face or body and moving stuff around is not okay.

7. The difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that we don't completely change the way the subject looks in the photo.

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9. You are showing us these videos to show that photography has a lot of photoshop involved and changing. It is another way of photography.

10. None of the videos are of guys because guys don't have much of an expectation to follow. Guys haven't been told that they need to wear makeup to look pretty and they need a body figure to attract girls. Guys have had expectations about what girls look like and girls have had low expectations about what they actually do in life but when it comes to looks we have to look absolutely perfect and those expectations are set so high that we get so insecure about our looks or bodies if something is "off."

prompt shoot 2

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cold 

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