Portrait is defined as, ?A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer, for example.? In the area of portrait photography there are some guidelines that you should consider when you go to take photos of people.
The different types of portraits are: close-ups, facial shots, upper body shots or environmental portraits. Environmental portraits are where you focus on the subject and on their surroundings that provide more character to the subject.
Would you like to take photos of your kids (and maybe yourself) in their Halloween outfits `witch’ are a little different? Why not take pictures of them in the kind of places that witches and ghosts normally inhabit, such as a dark and spooky wood? Naturally you aren’t going to take them (and yourself) into a real dark and spooky wood; that might not be a good idea, especially on Halloween night…
Just as music builds mood, colors can also help create mood. A lot has been written on what each color denotes, what emotions it evokes. Colors also have an impact on one’s health. Did you ever think that the colors in a photograph can actually make someone look at it over and over again or probably turn-off the viewer. In fact the colors in photographs can set the pace and mood of your surroundings and impact you deeply.