El rostro como motivo fotográfico

El retrato clásico en fotográfico es el heredero de la tradición retratística en la pintura y parte de los postulados afianzados desde el siglo XVI. En el retrato clásico nos centramos en el rostro de la persona, especialmente en su mirada. Podemos tratar de indagar en la personalidad del modelo a través del gesto, ya sea capturándolo espontáneamente o bien forzando su aparición. En la tradición pictórica la iluminación principal solía venir la izquierda del cuadro y de arriba, mostrándonos el lado derecho del modelo. Esto podemos modificarlo a voluntad, adecuándolo a la persona que vamos a fotografiar. Los pintores mantenían la dirección de la luz por la sencilla razón de que empleaban una ventana. Dado que nosotros podemos cambiar la posición de los focos no tenemos por qué mantener la regla de que la luz venga de la derecha de la figura (nuestra izquierda).

Modelo: Wendy Millán

Fuentes y ampliación de información: Paco Rosso

Probando

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked. "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm towards the viewer. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. Drops.