2. THE PORTRAIT MOVEMENT

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PORTRAITURE IS A large enough field that it’s treated as its own genre. It is the inspiration for many new camera owners’ ventures into the world of photography. It is also the one genre of photography that I believe every shooter needs to have a handle on.

My story in portraiture is similar to that of how other professionals became interested in photography. I started out primarily as a landscape and natural history magazine photographer. However, I quickly learned that in order to maintain freelance opportunities with many publications, I was going to have to learn how to photograph people. One day, I was offered an ...

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