Professional Selfportraits

Overview: You will need to have a portrait of yourself that you can use as a bio picture for your contact page of your FolioHD Web site. This photo should communicate something about who you are as person and your style as a photographer.

Directions:

Step 1: Review the contact pages for the following photographers. Review the image of the photographer and read the bio statement to see what they had to say about themselves as a photographer.

http://www.lalox.com/contact

http://jonruby.foliohd.com/contact


Step 2: Review the links below to get some ideas on how to take your own self portrait. You will turn in 3 self portraits. One of which you will use as your bio picture for your Contact page of your FolioHD account. You will process this image in Lightroom and export it as a JPEG that you will then upload to your FolioHD account.

http://lightinspired.net/self-portraits-tutorial-tuesday/

http://jfotography.net/tutorials-take-self-portraits.php

http://digital-photography-school.com/self-portrait-photography-tips

Or try searching on the Digital Photography School website or on Google for "Self Portrait tutorial/example."

You may have another student help you with your self portrait, but you are responsible for achieving the look you are wanting. Your helper may only help you with logistics of taking the photo. You should have the final say on the finished product.

You may use the studio lights and backdrop if you want to recruits an advanced commercial photography student to help you set up your shot. However, I will not be able to teach you how to do this at this time.