Research into portrait photography

Research into portrait photography

As i am wanting to capture some portraits for some if not all of my 5 images for this editorial photography i wanted to research into different styles of portrait photography, I am looking at the book 'Creative portrait photography by Natalie Dybiz'. In this book Natalie gives you a step by step guide into portraiture using her own experiences to help others when approaching this style of photography. 

Below i am going to write my interpretation of some of what i have taken from her book.

Creating a portrait is in a sense capturing the essence of a person in a photograph. A portrait can mean many different things depending on the context in which it is used in, for example in documentary photography portraits can mean there was a chance encounter with a stranger resulting in a portrait, self portraits can mean capturing yourself in a moment for personal uses or a portrait for a client could be for friends or family or again personal uses. 

To make a portrait is to make a statement, show the person as they are in that moment. Be it candid or semi-candid. 

I have taken a lot of portrait photography throughout me studying photography from the age of 16, there is something that i like about taking photographs of people, capturing them in one photograph, i'll include a few photographs that show my progression from when i first started taking portrait until now.

Not all the portraits below were meant to be strictly portraits, some were transcriptions of photographs for my A Levels, some were from my narrative project i did and some are for friends for their projects.