A portrait style I’ve seen before is the torn paper portrait. It’s where your subject is framed by a torn paper. Pretty straight forward. I have an idea I want to try with a particular subject (or should I say, subjects) but before I go running off to try and set this up, I wanted to test it out at home.
For starters this requires having a paper backdrop at all. I have two. One was a little more beat up than the other, so I used the beat up one. The other catch is that the backdrop has to be long enough to cut a section off. This will be the torn paper part. Then you use the remaining roll as a backdrop to that. In other words, to do this style of portrait you have to be willing to sacrifice a paper backdrop. You may have some left afterwords. I did, but just enough for it to still be a backdrop.
The hole itself was just knife cuts. You are looking for that general center point because if you are too far off to a side it’s going to be tricky to work your way out of that side. Then practice and posing. You need space if you want your subject to lean out of it. For lighting, it’s a single light believe it or not. It has a softbox and is just overhead pointed at a 45-degree angle.
Now time to run off and try and coordinate this session, but fortunately, I have sample photos to help push the concept with.
I’m open for a few clients, if you need photography work then reach out to me and let’s get this done.
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