NEW BRIEF: Portrait project

Portrait Brief 

This time I have some portrait brief to do. 

I absolutely love this project, I mean, it's not something new to me as I have done something like this before, but doing it once again makes me more experienced and focused on certain things I have not focused on before. 

The focus of this project is identity and how it can be visualised (or fabricated) for the camera.  Identity is more than just what we look like, it’s about who we are inside, what we think, feel, know and believe.

" You are to find someone to work with who is accessible to you as you will need to photograph them several times.  You are to create five photos of this person using the five elements of a portrait – face, pose, clothing, location and props.  Each photo must emphasise one of these elements and all of these elements must say something about your subject, who they are and what they think and feel."    

Therefore I will be talking about many aspects for this brief such as: subject, scenography, outfit etc. 

In this brief I have to consider:

• Face
• Location
• Pose
• Clothing
• Props

My subject will be about healthy life style, and my model's happy memories from her childhood. 

My model is 25 years of age woman who loves healthy life style and enjoys exercising and going for jogging. 

I'm planing to do some shots in the studio and outside as well. Maybe on a playground (even if its going to be cold) but I think showing some shots from the playground will represent some of childhood's memories. This is because now a days adults are exercising even more often on a playgrounds but when we were a kids we use to play on the same playgrounds. Also with this scenography I would like to show the positive side of the healthy life style joining with great fun and happiness. 

Of course the outfit for this scenography will be totally different to the one I am planing to focus on in the studio sessions. 

Few layers of clothing will be essential as we have middle of January 2017 and the weather is just getting colder every day....

During the studio sessions I will try to focus on the light, as much as possible and make planned shots as best as they possible could be. In those planned shots I'm trying to get the similar effect like from the images below: .

All of them images were downloaded from the pinterest.com

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Of course, to make effects like this on the image will be a bit hard for me, as I have never done photoshoots like this before. 

But doing any shoots it is obvious that there will be random taken pictures I have planned, or random scenography, and it will end up as a great idea. So I am not planing anything so seriously, but I have few idea and vision of how this shots could look like in my camera. 

I'd like to do some black and white photos at this session as well, as it is the most popular shots people doing in fitness studio shots. 

I think the black background and the 2 lights on a side will be perfectly working together.  The black background will also play well together with portraits and beauty shots. 

If comes about clothing I will use outfits listed below:

Sport kit:

- Leggins 

- Sports bra

-Sports top

-Trainers

-Fake "sweat" 

-Long wet hair 

I hope I will do well in my photoshoots.