Portrait photography

Portrait photography is intended to capture both physical likeness and the personality of the subject to create a visual keepsake that is often shared with others. Common requests for portrait photography include:  Family and children photos  Baby Pictures  School Photos, including senior photos and graduation photos  Couples  Maternity Photos  Birth Photos Portrait photography is a pretty wide net and quite a few of the opportunities in this niche are available to you all year long and some definitely have a season, like graduation photos. II. Head Shots Professional head shots are always in demand, whether it’s needed by an actor, singer, or website. It is not the most exciting part of the event niche, but it is one that is in high…

Portrait Photography Equipment Have you ever wonder why many Portrait photographer dress up like an army with many pouches around their hip and camera with long lens hanging down from their neck? What about a photographer with a huge backpack and several crew members standing and holding flashes? If you are wondering about these, now it comes a good opportunity to learn more about Portrait photography equipment. One of the most important thing to do a portrait photography is the equipment.…

Design Philosophy As an artist I strive to create images to express intended that provokes questions and individual interpretation. As a Portrait photographer, I want my portraits to be considered the balance of how the subject wants to look in the photograph and the photographer's artistic input. The design is a set of tools, not a standardized process. For something to be “well designed” it could be simple, or it could be involved. It could be considered aesthetically pleasing, or it could…

specifically Muslim women. I wanted to use portrait photography to show the different types of women. One of the things foreigners hear the most is “go back to your own country” or “go back to where you came from”. But half of us are born in the UK and its all we know is Britain. My mother came to Britain aged 3 and was brought up in an environment which had no Islamic education. She has a sense of belonging the UK and felt at home. She visited the country she was born in at the age of 13…

daguerreotype, titled as “Postmortem portrait: man and woman holding deceased baby” is dated 1840-1860 (photographer unidentified, Harvard University visual information access.) It’s a daguerreotype of a couple with their dead baby. The frame seems to be made of wood or leather but it’s unclear since it is worn-out but the inner frame of golden color looks like a honeycomb. There are spots at some place of daguerreotype making it unclear. The shape of the picture is semi-circle from the top…

to make a portrait photograph. However, there are of course differences in the amateur and professional portrait. Professional portrait photographers have certain abilities and techniques that let them get the best out of their subjects. A portrait photograph does not only mean a person's image. It shows character and emotion as well as employing professional approaches. If you want to start shooting portraits and don't know the essential elements, here are five tips that can give you a good…

Natural Light Portrait Photography - How to Create Backlight or Hairlight By Marc Crooze | Submitted On June 29, 2012 Recommend Article Article Comments Print Article Share this article on Facebook 2 Share this article on Twitter 1 Share this article on Google+ Share this article on Linkedin Share this article on StumbleUpon 1 Share this article on Delicious 1 Share this article on Digg 1 Share this article on Reddit Share this article on Pinterest Expert Author Marc Crooze A good…

Introduction Portraiture redefined art due to creation and enhancement of artistic value within the photography sphere. Artists such as Dorothea Lange, Roy DeCarava and Diane Arbus utilized portraiture to capture raw emotions and personalities of their subjects through use of different approaches of portraiture. The work of these artists inscribed new meaning to photography while at the same time challenging established ideas of photography by infusing new styles of photo portraiture. This…

At the turn of the century, a battle against painting was forged in the form of a photograph. Threatened by the new artform, painters prepared for the end of their profession. A couple decades later, both still exist side by side. In Dominique de Font-Reaulx’s chapter “Portraiture” in his Painting and Photography, he uses portraits as a measure of the effectiveness of the mediums. In 1936, two artists decided to capture two separate portraits with completely different subjects. During the…

in tableau photography? Since photography was invented in 1839, it quickly became the most influential medium as it is more connected with the reality compared to painting. It provides us a new way to explore questions of ourselves in relation to the world. As a dominant theme of photography, portrait photography practiced by many artists as the diversity of the subject matter. Like Andy Grundberg (1999, p.200) indicated that, “More than any other kind of images today, portraiture photographs…