Synopsis- P#1

For my project, I took portraits of four different people with white, acrylic paint on their faces, wearing white shirts and against a white background. I used 8 pictures, 2 of each subject, and the prints were 5 inches by 5 inches. I used a medium format camera and very large aperture (between 2 and 2.8) to make the background blurry. I also used many lamps to create very intense, dramatic lighting. I was inspired by the portraits done by david faggiano and I really like the idea of putting paint on subjects and then taking pictures of them because it seems like a melding of painting and photography. But I had to try to keep the photos from becoming too staged looking because then they resembled mimes or clowns.