The Portrait - Digital Final

Posted by C.Locke / at 9:39 AM / /

For my final in Digital Imagery, I wanted to experiment with expression.  My camera was set to shoot continuously and I would shoot for several minutes.  I didn't let my subject know my whole idea, like the fact that this was an experiment where I would see how their expression changed.  I just told my subject that I wanted to do a portrait and it would take several minutes of shooting.

I originally was going to present this in a grid format, but ended up not feeling that was the right way to present what I wanted to show.  So the idea of doing this in video format was exciting and something that interested me.  

Over the course of shooting for this and editing (approx. 450 pics I went over several times), I discovered quite a few interesting things:  at the beginning of the video it feels like my subject is being goofy to hide his uncomfortableness in front of the camera, after a few minutes of shooting is where things begin to get interesting (after about 4 minutes in the video), I can see my subject getting slightly bored of all the shooting, then begins to feel comfortable enough to engage the camera closely and genuinely laughs.  Also when I was going through watching the video, I would find myself laughing when my subject laughed or even feeling bored when he was, it could have been because I was present when I shot all these photos, but it was a cool experience for me.

I'm posting another video that I hopefully can dig into more later, and it was just cool to watch when I was reviewing my photos, I went through the photos several times enjoying the flipbook in chart form feel of it.