The Art of Portrait Photography

  • Monday, October 4, 2010
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  • Portrait pictures are commonly taken in various functions like weddings and graduation. The beauty of these photos is so intriguing such that people prefer have these photos as their wall hangings for their houses. Portrait photography focuses so much on a person's face although it shows the whole body or a better part of it. What better way is there to capture the moods and experiences of a person than to do it through photography?

    Unlike many other forms of photography, portrait photography was the most popular with the discovery of the camera. People enjoyed taking pictures of their families and this dates back to more than two hundred years ago. Unlike today when the picture are painted in the actual color that they capture, printing of pictures was done in black and white before the discovery of a more sophisticated method of bringing out colored pictures. All the same people still enjoyed portrait photography.

    So much was their love for photography that they were brave enough to move over battlefields and across oceans to capture more appealing and more fascinating images. This is what has given rise to modern photography. For the same reason there has evolved new and more high-tech equipment and tools that are used for portrait photography today.

    Since the quality of photography depends so much on the photographer, it is wise that he takes full control of his environment in terms of the equipment he is using and the intensity of lighting around the area where he is photo shooting. Careful manipulation of certain aspects of photography will ensure maximum satisfaction in this area.

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