Portrait Research- Self Evaluation

My Portrait project has been an interesting one learning about studio and how important lighting is. Sometime the lighting seamed more important than the pose because if the light wasn’t right then the picture isn’t as fantastic as it could be. For 2 of my final prints ive focused more on the face as to me that’s what i feel portrait is about. I experimented with different types of lights, shadows and distance from my subjects to see what would be my desired outcome. I’m not sure if i can say i was influenced by any of the photographers i researched, As it was more a trial and error kind of thing. 2 of the photos i have taken look like they have taken influence from Terry Richardson but I’d done the photos before i got to him in my research, but i was happy to see that, that style was used as i was unsure whether i could call them a portrait. I do think i have met the requirements of the brief. I do feel happy with what i have done and achieved with the brief, i do wish i had had more studio time as i missed a few lessons and i think it hindered me in a way and i probably could have gotton a lot better photographs. The only problem i seemed to have, has been with capture one and it was importing photos on and then trying to get them into jpegs and tiffs and on to my desktop. I overcome this by getting some help off another student and following some help videos on you tube. Which resulted in the desired outcome and i got myself sorted in the end. I do still find capture one confusing and i feel a little lost on trying to achieve certain things in this programme. I very much have given myself deadlines during this project to make sure i had enough time to get everything sorted and sent to the printers so i had it back on time for the hand in date. I feel i now more more about studio lighting and how important it can be, i had lots of fun doing this project and at times felt like a profession photographer and other times i felt like a model. I felt the assiment challenged my techniqually as the capture one i felt very confused with and all the different types of lighting and using the light meters also learning how to get the different lights in the background of the pictures. If i could start again i would try and do more studio lesson as i really feel this has let me down.