Week 3 Thursday

SEYDOU KEITA

African portraitist Seydou Keita live in Bamako, Mali from 1921to 2001. Self-taught photographer, the artist opened his own studio in 1948 and specialised in portraiture.

Number of his clients were drawn to the quality of a lot of his images. Majority were young men dressed in European clothing.

Seydou primarily worked with daylight.

    

ISO: 800

FSTOP: 7.1

SHUTTER: 1/60

It was hard to find a background that was similar for this image. Especially a dark background like the one above. 

Compositional Technique

- I used the cropping tool for this image because there were things on the side of the two people. 

- I used my macro lens to take the image

- I tried to get the both of them in the centre of the image. 

- I sat at eye level with the two models. I wanted to try and get the same level 

SLOW SHUTTER SPEED

ISO: 400

SHUTTER: 4.0

FSTOP: 4.0

This was the outcome of my slow shutter speed. We had to try a couple of times due to the shutter speed not being fast enough to get the whole drawing. 

The slower the shutter speed line is more defined in the image which I noticed during the process of creating this image. I think it would of worked really well If we were in a darker area.