30 Awesome Portrait Photography Examples

Portrait photography is another beautiful type of photography in which face and expressions are prime. Portrait photography mainly used to show various expressions of face. Most of the portrait photographs contain only face directly looking in camera. A portrait is normally not a snap, but a composed image of someone in a still position.

There are few types of portrait photography like constructionist, environmental, candid and few other creative approaches. Capturing professional portrait requires perfect composition of lighting. There are many ways to light a subject’s face with several lighting plans like Three-Point Lighting, Butterfly lighting etc.

“There’s a discipline. When you take someone’s portrait, you don’t have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that’s the image that you took.”

-Matthew Modine