Portrait Photography

Photographing a single person or even a group is called portrait photography or portraiture. Portraits tend to show the emotions, personalities, and moods of the people in the picture. Generally, portrait photos are focused on the face, but they can also include the whole body, the background, and even the context.

There’s more to portrait photography than……

It is imperative that a portrait photographer takes the time to get to know their subject. There’s more to portrait photography than lighting a human head, getting them to smile, and saying cheese simultaneously.

The goals of portrait photography are to:

• Show someone’s personality.
• To capture the essence of a character and their moment. 
• To capture a person’s physical likeness on film!