Portrait Photography - Styles of Portraiture

Styles of Portraiture

There are many different techniques for portrait photography. Often it is desirable to capture the subject's eyes and face in sharp focus while allowing other less important elements to be rendered in a soft focus. At other times, portraits of individual features might be the focus of a composition such as the hands, eyes or part of the subject's torso.

Additionally another style such as head shot has came out of the portraiture technique and had become a style on its own.

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