A Complete Series of Portrait Photography Tips | Part 1

There are variety of photography styles, such as Landscape, Sport, Indoor, Outdoor, Portraiture, etc. Each style has certain principles and rules. Portrait Photography is the most popular style among amateur and pro photographers. To a successful  portrait photographer, a photographer should follow Principles and Rules of Portraiture photography.  

In this series of articles we are going to take a look in to Portraiture Photography tips which assist you starting your Portrait Photography journey. Whether you want to be a Portrait Photographer, or just take portraits as hobby, you need to learn and apply some principles.

Creating amazing portraitures has a major niche in all sorts of visual arts, including photography. Let’s get started by looking into Portrait Photography definition.

Wikipedia has a complete description of Portrait Photography term, and I picked this part to share:

“Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study.”

What are the main key features for Portraiture Photography?

According to above definition, a portraiture should showcasing the personality of the subject. That describes why some portraitures are more eye-catching than the others. As a photographer you must consider many different elements to achieve success in portrait photography. In these series of articles I am going to discuss them into two main categories; Technical Aspects and Artistic Approach.

Technical Aspects:

Camera Settings, Lens Selection, and Light are the main technical parts. I am going to discuss in camera settings such as selecting shutter speed, aperture, ISO, how to select a lens for better result. On the other note, Light is the most important part of any kind of photography, I will also cover Natural Light Portrait photography tips, as well as covering the techniques on Flash and Studio settings.

Artistic Approach:

Posing, breaking the ice, communication with models and subjects, composition, etc. are included in Artistic Approach of Portrait Photography. Like other arts, these approaches are just guidelines. Each artist has a unique artistic point of view, but these guidelines can be used as the starting points.