Portrait+Photographers

__ [|Yu-Cheng Hsiao] __

Yu-Cheng Hsiao likes to capture a lot of emotion in a picture. He uses bright colours or paled tones to help enforce the feeling present in the photograph. The variety of photos he takes ranges from candid shots to completely posed. For the half body shots, he uses depth of field to blur the background to help focus on the model. The clothing picked for the models also helps to bring across the emotion, such as the pure white shirt and simplistic pearl-like beads on the model above with her contrasting dark hair and solemn look. Another example is the childish expression on the girl in the top photo enhanced with the childish clothing and handbag. Also, almost all of his work involves asian models so that he can catch the contrasting dark hair colour and pale complexion. __ Richard Avedon __ Richard Avedon used black and white primarily to create striking images. Most of his works involves famous people such as celebrities and political figures to the common person. The simplistic backgrounds he uses are meant to focus on the person and bring out their expression. He likes the contrast of black against white as most of the clothing are dark so that in the photos it would appear black. To also create that contrast he uses shadows a great deal as shown in the photo of Audrey Hepburn and a bit in the photo of The Beetles. Most of his photos are serious although he lets people show their true selves as seen in the photo of the happy dancer and the lady with the elephants. Most of his portrait shots are done with only the upper half of their body shown. In the majority of his photos, he manages to capture a striking angle of each of his subjects that make them seem powerful yet elegant.