Teddy_Beach Portrait

I took this photo when I was in Florida last week during February break, using my Nikon D3200. I captured this photo when I was out for a walk on the beach with my brother. I decided to take a head portrait photo of my brother on the beach. I liked this one in particular for many reasons. The first thing I liked about this photo is that when I took this photo the background was blurred out, allowing the subject of the portrait to be pulled to the fullest attention of my brother. Another thing I liked about this photo is the different variations of colors in this photo such as greens, whites, blues, oranges, pinks, reds, yellows, browns, and tans. Another thing that I really liked about this photo was that you can see great details of his skin, which provides great detail of texture in this photo. I also like how you can see the texture of his baseball cap allowing the detail of the lines going sideways on the cap. I also liked how the lighting was in this photo, I liked how the light reflects on the left side of his face and hat, allowing the center and right side of his face to be shady. I also like how the sunlight on the left side of his face allows a shadow line from the temple of his sunglasses. Another thing I like about this photo is that you can see the little droplets of sweat on his nose as well as above his lips, which adds the amount of detail visible on his face. I also like how the sun was so strong that the left side of his cheek is shiny because of the oils on his skin from the heat, as well as from the hair below the left temple over his ear, this allows a rainbow-like glossy look to the photo. I also like how you can see detail of the little dots of facial hair on his chin in the photo to allow more texture to the details of his face that are shown in the photo. Another thing that I like is that the lenses of his sunglasses are clearly reflective and not foggy, which allows a shiny mirror reflection of me taking the photo with my camera. I think one of the most important parts of the photo is the reflection through his sunglasses. I like how in the reflection you can see my reflection through both lenses of his sunglasses. I like how you can see the waves of the ocean clearly through both lenses. I like how on the right lens of his sunglasses you can my shadow casted on the sand to the lower part of the lens, as well as a slight reflection of my reflection in the right lens in the left corner of it, by having this it allows extra depth to the photo. I also like how you can slightly see both of his eyes through both lenses of his sunglasses, on the right side his eye is seen more visibly than the other. I also like how you can see his fingers through the reflection of his left lens of his sunglasses on the lower part of it, this adds to the strength of the photo along with the other things in this photo. Another thing that I like about this photo is the shininess of the sea grape plants in the background which cast little light flares to the lens in the photo. I think that by having them out of focus preserves the main subject to have the fullest attention. I think that having all of these features in this one photo allows this portrait photo to be much more interesting to the viewer in so many ways. I think that without these things in this photo it wouldn't be as a great of a photo as it is.