Environmental portrait and others

An environmental portrait is a picture with a person in their normal environment, like at their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject's life and surroundings.


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OTHER PORTRAITS!!!!

Some other types of portraits are candid, posed, formal, couple, sporting, children, and groups.

CANDID
The subject is aware of you and your camera or a travel shot but may also include street or cafe photography.



POSED
Posed means that the photograph has communicated with the subject by word or body language that they desire a change of body position or expression. Its also means that whatever the photographer gets the subject to do in front of the camera.



FORMAL
A formal portrait is planned out. It might be a birthday, school portrait,dance photos or wedding pictures.




COUPLE
Its a portrait with more than one person as the main focus.



GROUP
A picture with anywhere from 3 to several hundred people. These pictures tend to be sports, wedding, family, business portraits.



SPORTING
Its shows the subject with their uniform, equipment in their sporting environment. The important part is to let the equipment and location tell part of the story.


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CHILDREN
The portraits normally fit into the categories of posed or candid aware.




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