Environmental Portrait - Subject Information
For my environmental portrait subject, my principle individual is Samantha Lew, the owner of Lumos Studio in Corvallis, Oregon. Lumos is a salon and tattoo studio, both of which Sam does as her career. I recently reached out to her via instagram to schedule a time to shoot her at Lumos Studio which happens to be down the street from me. We will be shooting there on Wednesday October 30th in the evening. The props that will work best is her tattoo set up and the studio itself.
My secondary subject is Brenna Murphy, a hairstylist who works at Epic Salon in Corvallis, Oregon. Brenna has been working as a cosmetologist for about 8 years both as an artist and as a teacher. Her props will be the different hair color tones, toner, mixing bowls, foil and hair dryers. I recently photographed her doing somebody's hair, but in this portraiture we will be having her more poised in the environment instead of in action in her salon.
The primary tips that I picked up from the "Shooting Stars" video would be about making sure to get a variety of angles and frames that work around the subject, clear, flattering lighting that envelopes the subject rather than spotlighting the subject, and getting to know the subject in a natural, personality evoking way.
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