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By Richard Stevens

Faces of people have been captured in several popular photographs for decades. Portrait photography deals with showing a person or a group with all their unique features.

A good portrait photograph goes against the convention and is able to catch mental states and angles of a person like never seen before. However, more conventional family or one-person portraits are also clicked and they are appropriate for family albums.

An appropriate close up bringing the person's face into prominence distinguishes a truly expert portrait photograph from one that has been casually clicked. This is achieved by a common camera trick of making the background a little bit foggy and unclear so that the person's face gets the best possible focus. A camera with a wider aperture can achieve this perfect balance between the background and the foreground image. However, in some portraits where the subject wants to be seen as part of the background, especially in images taken out in the open, a standard aperture serves the objective better.

Photography is all about absorption of light into the camera; thus inadequate light has always been a photographer's cause of worry. However, by following some basic photography guidelines, a good portrait photograph can be obtained. If the person is made to sit by a window in a position in which the sun's rays fall only partly on the face, then the image normally ends up looking splendid. To ensure that the remaining part of the face does not appear dark, a reflective object such as a white sheet can be employed. However, Studio lighting can also be tuned to suit the light requirements for good portrait photographs, and thus a lot of photographers prefer to take such photographs inside studios.

The last but probably the most significant aspect of portrait photography is to ensure that the subject feels at home. If the subject doesn't feel at ease while being clicked and doesn't pose naturally, then even the highest quality camera and lighting technology will fail to do justice to the portrait.

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