ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Portraiture by Florina by Bill Thomas
“Portrait photography or portraiture is pho- tography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person’s face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included.” Wikipedia - 2015
production is very theatrical. Dramatic com- positions may incorporate various methods of lighting, mood, emotion, and depth. Subjects are seated against plain backgrounds or related settings such as drawing rooms, outdoor vistas, or in renditions of movements. Portrait photographs are usually composed
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and captured in a studio where the photogra- pher has control over the lighting and compo- sition of the subject and can adjust the directions and intensities of the lighting. Variations of lighting techniques involve
three-point, which includes Key lighting to give shape to the subject(s), fill-in light which pro-
lorina Romoser is a portrait photogra- pher, a specialized field in the broad realm of picture taking. This type of re-
ital manipulation can produce special images of people. Lenses used by portrait photography cameras are classically fast, medium, telephoto, and dependent on their purposes. Traditionally, we all have become familiar
with the portraits of high school and senior col- lege graduations, both group and individual. These date back to the 1880s in America, and today these images of people in the past are dis- played in homes, many including pets, student athletes of both sexes in their letterman jackets or playing uniforms, and groups in whitewater rafts, atop mountains, or showing off their mil- itary uniforms. Florina Romoser is a versatile, creative, ex-
perienced, family-interacting professional who has taught high school, and provided integrated software for business presentations while work- ing with individuals and groups. Her experi- ences
in her own education and
communicative endeavors are extensive and have broadened as the military wife of a Marine officer, Major Mathew Romoser, and mother of three, taking her far beyond the skills devel- oped as a noted portrait photographer. Initially, arriving in the United States with
vides contrasts of light and shadow to a picture, and accent-lights, which separates the subject from the background. Techniques such as but-
terfly lighting with focus on both the subject and the rim of the picture, and accessory light- ing which can add additional highlights or background definition through bouncing the lights via different sources such as windows, curtains or soft lighting methods, can also used There are basically four approaches taken
in portrait painting – the constructionist, environ- mental, candid, and cre- ative. Each has been used over time for different reasons be they technical, artistic, or cultural. Evi- dentially, Florina is a master of all four. Used primarily in
most studio and social photography, the con- structionist artist devel- ops an idea around the portrait – happy family, romantic couple, trust- worthy executive, etc. The environmentalist de- picts subjects in their context be that work, leisure, social or family settings. The candid ap- proach is where people are photographed with- out
their knowledge
going about their daily business. This method though often criticized has given the world su- perb and important im- ages of people in various situations and places over the past century. Candid shots provide his- torical sources of information about people, and the creative method, sometimes using dig-
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her Romanian parents at the age of six, she spoke no English but was fluent in both Ger- man and Romanian. Currently, along with her now flawless English, she still serves as a trans- lator and interpreter in the two European lan- guages. She grew up in Pennsylvania, her husband in Maryland; however, the Marines have taken them to duty stations in North Car- olina, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, Kansas and, now, Camp Pendleton, San Clemente. Major Romoser has also served in Afghanistan, Qatar and Kuwait, among other Middle East
assignments. Graduating from Dickson College in
Pennsylvania in 2001, with majors in history and German, Florina moved to Washington,
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