What Is Portrait PhotographyPortrait photography or portraiture is photography 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.
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Three portrait photographers
Angus Thomas
Angus Thomas is an award-winning portrait photographer with a wide range of experience in corporate and commercial photography. His ability to capture decisive moments with discretion has earned him the respect & trust of both clients and booking agents.
Angus Thomas is an award-winning portrait photographer with a wide range of experience in corporate and commercial photography. His ability to capture decisive moments with discretion has earned him the respect & trust of both clients and booking agents.
Annie Leibovitz
How too take good Portrait Photography pictures: Pictures are all about the effect, the emotion, the angle, exposure etc, to take a fantastic picture you need a good camera angle and a good pose from your model there are different levels where you can take portrait pictures from for example: High, Eye Level and Lying down you.
Some Examples
First Shoot
Worst Picture
The picture is my worst picture because it doesn't show enough emotion and my character isn't being very serious as you can tell he's got his bottom lip out.
Best Picture
I think this is my best picture because it shows loads of emotion and heartfelt towards the situation,showing that the young child is unhappy and unsatisfied with what's going on in his life and he needs cheering up by someone to take his mind of the bad things.
Second shoot
Worst Picture
This picture has great angles and good focus but the problem is that it's got to much exposure in my opinion its a good picture but I should have lowered the exposure.
Best Picture
This is probably my best picture because it catches all the emotion in the picture that I'm happy and that it's a sunny day, outside environment and I'm also the only thing or person in focus plus I'm looking directly into the camera lens so you can see all the emotion things like pain,happy times, bad times etc.
Third Shoot
Worst Picture
In my opinion this picture is my worst, it didn't go well because it was over-exposed therefore it exposed a lot of light to the picture which overcame my models face and blurred out the background, after this picture I noticed that I needed to lower it which made a big improvement in my best picture below.
Best Picture
Fourth Shoot
Best Picture
I like this picture a lot because it catches emotion and how the person is feeling inside by the straight face and the stern eyes, black and white background, this picture has a story behind it showing the child is in a sad situation.