Self Portraits and Portraits Part 2

Settings—The Other Subject

The settings in which you make pictures of people are important because they add to the viewer's understanding of your subject. The room in which a person lives or works, their house, the city street they walk, the place in which they seek relaxation—whatever it is, the setting provides information about people and tells us something about their lives. Seek balance between subject and environment. Include enough of the setting to aid your image, but not so much that the subject is lost in it.

A mirror or some other reflective surface offers an even easier way to take a self-portrait. In most cases, the camera will be included in the scene (but this can help make a statement about your enthusiasm for photography). You can use your camera as a prop, and hold it away from your face. When you photograph into a mirror, be sure your reflection is in focus. An infrared autofocusing system will usually focus on glass if it's aimed into a mirror, and will focus at infinity if aimed at an angle. You might try focusing at an object that's the same distance as the distance from the camera to the reflection, lock in the focus, recompose the image to include yourself, and take the picture.

A self-portrait doesn't have to be of your face—the image of two hands holding a camera says a lot about the photographer who shot his own portrait. You can also aim the camera down your body from eye level. I once took a photo of my own feet in hiking shoes, hanging over the edge of a rocky outcropping in a scenic spot (if you try something like this, just make sure you're in a safe place that you won't fall from). A picture like this will say a lot about your activities and surroundings.

                     Environmental Portrait 

 I liked this photo because of how the girl is position to go with her background.

 

I liked this photo because of the setting and the background that it creates also because the person is just a shadow.

         

                   Photography Self Portrait

 I like this photo because it is different from just a regular self portrait.

I like this photo because of the reflection from the door knob.

 Casual Portrait

 

 I like this photo because of the background and it is really casual.

I like this photo because of how the shadows of the tree makes on the frame and how the cupels are shadows.

I will shoot photographs of students, i would like to shoot outside i would try and fallow the rules and make it unique.