This is my first attempt at my portrait project. This is going to be modified and re-done to create stronger final images.
My thoughts behind this project are that they have no context as to what they mean. There are young adults stood by a door number. This could be interpreted in a number of ways: student accommodation (the real story behind the photographs), or perhaps something more sinister such as a youth hostel or even a child detention centre/prison.
I shot these photographs on a 50mm lens which actually was not the right one for this task. Because the corridors are so narrow this lens couldn’t capture the subject’s faces and the room numbers together. Therefore my composition was not as I wanted and needs to be adjusted.
I am going to re-do these with a 30mm lens and also get the person in the photograph to hold a reflector under their chin so there is more even lighting underneath their face. Although I used the available overhead lighting, it was actually right for the context in which my photographs were being taken.
My favourite photograph is “P12”, as the positioning of her face is more interesting than it just being straight on. The next time I attempt to do this project i will try to get all the students to angle their face this way.
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