This part of the course looks at active portraits and the benefits of getting your subject to occupy themselves with something. This usually centres around the subject holding something or demonstrating how something is done.
The most common variants of the active shot is the interview shot which you see in many magazines. You can capture facial expressions easily this way but you have to be careful not to let their hands get in the way or have their mouths gaping open.
A contextual portrait
A very effective way of making a portrait is to shoot someone in the context of what they do. For example, a chef cooking preparing food or a painter painting. This type of approach aims to tell something about the person, what they do and how they do it.
This can be seen as a form of photo-journalism.
By encouraging the subject to be themselves and to do whatever comes naturally to them you can catch them unselfconciously.
This is also useful as it removes an self-consciousness the person has about being photographed.
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