For my school project of taking portraits, it was rather difficult because I found it to be very difficult to differentiate between formal, informal, and environmental portraits. I found this to be hard because the difinition of these different types of portraits is very different to different people. To me, I have always been laught that formal images or simply just having someone pose in a certain way and adding certain aspects of lighting and it wouldn't matter where the subject was, indoors or outdoors. I know that there are several forms of formal portraits that are taken outside as they actually do bring lighting umbrellas and over reflectors to get that certain aspect that brightens up the image. For informal portraits, I have been taught that it was where you capture the subject in their own matter and where ever they want to to be. Informal is where you capture a subject that is not expecting it. You capture them as they are and don't have to make them pose. For environmental, I had been taught that it is was an image that was taken outside with absolutley no help in terms of lighting, accept from that of natural light. Those are the terms that I used for creating my images.

For this unit, I took my camera everywhere with me because I wanted to take as many images as I could in order to discover what time of portrait photographer I am as well as to test out various forms of lighting to see what I could create and to make certain aspects of the photograph more emphasized. This varied from the color of the eyes to the definition in the face or skin. I had discovered that I am definitely a children's portrait photographer. With this, the majority of my images are little children because I find them to be the most interesting subjects that one could ever have because they have so many sides and I love to capture as many of them as possible.

I took many images throughout the month I was given to complete the project/unit. I probably took over 100 or so because I took several images of the same suject, trying to experiment with different lighting. I can't specifically provide the exact number of hours I took photographs, but I can definitely say that I shot every single day. Even though I did take a images of kids, I did take some older people, showing diversity. These images were all taken based off of what I saw through my lens and were based off my ideas. I sometimes had to arrange where people were to stand and would show them how to pose, but that was only for the formal portraits. The informal and environmental were all taken based off of where the subjects were and what they wanted to do as far as clothing and posing. For each pose and subject, I took about 15+ images, trying different exposures, lighting, and trying to focus on the subject.