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Picture Portrait

Portrait Photography - What Should You Know

Portrait photography deals with pictures that capture a person or a group of people where the facial expressions, the mood of the moment and the special features of the personality of the subjects are highlighted. A portrait is a well composed image of a person or a group in a still position. Portraits generally are done to remember a date or a special occasion such as a wedding, a graduation, an anniversary or a reunion.

When it comes to portrait photography it can be done on the traditional lines or it can be done in a more innovative style which will express the mood of the moment with more eloquence. Striking portraits are remembered forever and treasured by many. Traditionally, the subjects in the portrait stare straight ahead at the camera which is positioned at eye level. However if you change the angle of the camera it will add a completely different aspect to the portrait. Shooting from up, down or up close can give an interesting perspective to the whole exercise.

The most important feature in a portrait is the subject's eyes. Looking straight down the lens is the most common and traditional way which is great for establishing a connection with the person looking at it. You can also have the subject looking off camera with the focus on something outside the frame. It is intriguing to the onlooker and created interest in the portrait. This has to be handled with care so as to keep the focus on the picture and not take it totally to the edge of it. The subject can be looking at something within the frame and this second point of interest can create its own story within the portrait.

The placement of the subject is also important to a portrait. Dead center or placing them with the use of the Rule of Thirds should be done as befits each picture that you are composing. There are no hard and fast rules about this and being imaginative will ensure a great portrait.

Another aspect of portrait photography is the lighting and how the different effects are used to highlight facial features, the body or the background. The possibilities are endless and need only be limited by your imagination. Side-lighting, backlighting and silhouetting the subject can work out perfectly for portraits. Partially obscured features at times can be very powerful in a portrait.

The traditional portrait shots have nothing to show in the way of originality. If the subject is good, the portrait is good. On the other hand if the portrait can made to look more than interesting it will really stand out. So, get the subject to do something that will involve activity and the photographs that you shoot at this time will show the subject in a more upbeat light. Less posing and more candid photographs will definitely be better. This works amazingly with children.

Focusing on a prop or a body part is another way of taking portraits. Composing the photograph can be a lot of fun when you are working with a prop or focusing on one body part. Obscuring a part of the subject in the portrait can be very powerful as this creates all sorts of emotion. One other method that can be used specially when working with children is to take a series of pictures that captures a certain movement and can be presented together as a series.

With all these tips for portrait taking you can refine your techniques even further with practice. So, experiment and learn the beat way that will suit you and make it your signature style.

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Can you photoshop a picture for a better result for a portrait tattoo?

I was wondering if there is a way to photoshop a picture for a portrait tattoo??? My friend wants to get a portrait of her son and extremely likes a certain picture. She took it to a tattoo artist and he said there wasn't enough shadowing for it to come out good so now she was wondering if theres a way to modify that with photoshop?

Of course there is a way to modify any image with Photoshop.

She might want to try using one of the filters to give it a "drawing" look, because that is what a tattoo requires.

I would suggest trying Filter > Artistic > Posterize or Filter > Stylize > Find Edges as a starting point. Of course there is playing with the settings of each individual filter, and duplicating and changing layer blending modes to achieve the result you want.

This will be no easy task if there isn't much shadowing in the image (such as an over exposed picture or a picture with a lot of bright areas). Plus there is no magical button to do that, it takes trial and error until you are happy with the results, that is why people pay a lot of money for Photoshop classes. Your friend might want to take the picture to a graphic designer and see what response she gets.

The Tattoo artist is worried about his own work time, it would probably take a lot of time to get the picture to a level that could be worked with as a tattoo and since they are very busy during the summer that could have been why he said that.

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