Studio Portraits
In the first picture, the lighting is coming from the window to create a natural light appearance. The light is shining on the left side of her body creating a darker shadow on the right side. The model in this picture is looking directly at the camera with her head tilted to the side. I took this picture of her head and torso from about 5 feet away directly in front of her horizontally. The lighting creates a happy mood in the photo because of the bright light. Compared to the last photo with a somewhat darker light and the position of her head tilted down, it creates a gloomier tone than the happy tone created in the first.
Self Portraits
To take the first photo, I set the camera on self-timer and leaned it on a chair. This picture was taken in my dining room at night with a table lamp light beside the left side of my face and used positive and negative space to create a dynamic photo which makes it more of a self-portrait than a selfie. What was successful about this photo was the tone created from the facial expression and light. There was an florescent ISO and a fast shutter speed for the still picture.
Double exposure
The images I chose for my double exposure gallery were all portraits. Two were self-portraits and two were portraits of Autumn Duarte. The objects relate because they are all people overlaid with textured images. I modified each image through applying the texture to make the photo more dynamic. I put both pictures in photoshop, overlaid one of the images onto the other, reduced the opacity of the top layer and edited the opacity on certain individual areas of the photograph. Conceptually I chose to have the image of Autumn holding an umbrella merge with an image of raindrops to relate the theme to a gloomy, rainy scene.