Yesterday, I talked about portraits with un-boring backgrounds.
Today, it’s a boring background.
However…
The portrait up top is an example of what I call a “solid” portrait. While the tightly shot, cinematic portraits of yesterday’s post are of a certain ilk, the portrait here is something different. This portrait does not venture too far from the status quo while, I believe, capturing something that embodies the purpose of portraiture: to entirely focus all of one’s energy on the subject.
This is “pure” portraiture, I guess you could say.
This is exactly the same light and same background minus the oh-so-fancy Christmas lights.
Finally, it captures a sense of the person. I know the subject, I’ve worked with him well, and this shows him. I’m pleased by it; I hope he is, too.
Stay tuned…
-Noah D.
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PS: A remake of a 2007 image in exactly the same place. This time on a Leica M-E instead of a X-pan.
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Other photographer friends posting a photo a day for 2013:
Jeff Montgomery
Mike James
Ashel Parsons
