Finding a portrait in the elements of your environment

Instructor chef Gretchen Fayerweather

Lab assistant Amy Morford

   Environmental portraits can be taken in many ways from posing in front of a camera, which is probably the most common to waiting at a sporting event for the right moment to snap the shot.

   The culinary arts class at Owens Community College posed a little different scenario for me to be able to get this done.

   While the instructors and students are trying to keep deadlines with what they have going on, I had to work around them while they stayed busy.

   The task was not easy; while they worked I positioned my self in lots of different places. Taking pictures from any and every angle I could think of to get a somewhat of a decent shoot.

   Environmental portraits are best photographed in the environment that best relates to the subject.         Everything about the photo should say what the person does from the foreground to the background.

   

Portrait photography can be challenging when you don’t know your subject personally, moving around finding the right composition while giving instructions did not come easy for me. The more you work with people the more you will learn and the better you will become.