From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York with Rodney Smith

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The portrait in review

The portrait in review

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York with Rodney Smith

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The portrait in review

Here we are going to take a few minutes to review the photographs that I captured of Rodney. I have printed all of these on this velvet fine art paper. You can see there's a little black box here. I am going to send these pictures to him, because, you know, a lot of times as photographers, we are creating pictures for ourselves, but it's also interesting to see others' responses to those same pictures. Well, here is the first one. This picture was all about working with what I had. Rodney walked up in front of the studio, and I like this one. I like how there is a window behind him. He is a little bit off to the side, not centered in the frame. It's an honest picture, and I like that it's telling of who he is and his space. Well, next, we walked over to this great door, and I really liked this door. One of things that I knew I needed to do here was to experiment within this location. This first picture, it's one of my favorites. I like his hand on his face; he looks comfortable, at…

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