CHAPTER 11
Portrait Photography
The genre of portrait photography is fairly simple to understand. Your focus is to emphasize a person or group of people’s face(s) and image(s) (Figure 11.1). Within the realm of portraiture, there are several subclassifications, but we’ll focus solely on studio portraits, environmental portraits, and beauty photography in order to keep things relatively simple. I find that while each subclassification is inherently different, some lighting techniques can be modified to fit a different category. For example, you can easily photograph a beauty portrait on location with studio strobes and allow for ambient light. While you’re technically shooting an environmental portrait, if your image focuses on beauty photography, ...
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