The Second Task...

I began to put to together ideas in my sketch-book on how I could creatively display visually pleasing portraits of my family, I started thinking about taking pictures of them from different angles, however, my family at home are quite camera shy (including myself) so I decided to retake pictures that had already been taken, however, I wanted to capture their personality in each photo. So I found objects that define and/or places that define them . However, I will put the objects/place slightly out of focus so the viewer's eyes are drawn towards the original picture I am retaking...



I also decided to put each photo in black and white to make them seem authentic as the pictures featured in them are old photos.



**In response to the comment**
I decided to retake 2 of the 3 pictures I originally took for this task. I changed the background of the picture so that the two objects are a lot sharper and stand out, which was hard to do in the previous picture as they were lost in the eternal pattern of the last photo, stopping that endless feel. I also zoomed in on the picture more so that the background was more out of focus, meaning the glasses weren't competing for the views attention. Also to improve the lighting a found a deck light and positioned it over the items. (Please note that the image of me, looking at the left side of it, the rim of the glasses have appeared white, making the retaken photos of myself look like am I out of focus. However, I am in focus its just the quality of the old photo.)



Here is a picture of my mother about 18 or 16 years ago (I'm guessing the baby is either myself or Harriet, my sister) and she spends most of her time in the kitchen cooking and she's a caring person and I feel this captures her personality quite well.



Finally this is a picture of my sister and her boyfriend from about 2/3 years ago and with the bear in the background it captures their relationship nicely (however, I feel if I were to modify the image I'd put the photograph of them, more in-focus than the bear)



This new image has been taken with a lamp positioned over it to give it a more even lighting, I also zoomed in more on the photo so that the bear was out of focus drawing the views eyes to the photo before the bear.