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Portrait photography

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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. [1]

61 relations: Academic dress, Accent lighting, Bokeh, Canon EF 50mm lens, Canon EF portrait lenses, Catch light, Daguerreotype, Depth of field, Edward S. Curtis, F-number, Field of view, Fisheye lens, Flag (lighting), Flash (photography), Gel, George Hurrell, Glamour photography, Gobo (lighting), Hard and soft light, Head shot, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Hidden mother photography, High key, Hollywood, I Am Chicago, Imp, Joseph Petzval, Large format, Lens speed, Letterman (sports), Lighting, Mug shot, Necklace, Normal lens, North America, Painterliness, Perspective distortion (photography), Petzval lens, Photography, Prime lens, Reflector (photography), Robert Doisneau, Secondary school, Self-portrait, Senior (education), Shot (filmmaking), Shutter speed, Silhouette, Snoot, Soft focus, ..., Softbox, Spherical aberration, Stage lighting accessories, Street photography, Strobe light, Tuxedo, Umbrella, Watermark, Whitby Goth Weekend, Yearbook, 135 film. Expand index (11 more) »

Academic dress

Academic dress is a traditional form of clothing for academic settings, mainly tertiary (and sometimes secondary) education, worn mainly by those who have been admitted to a university degree (or similar), or hold a status that entitles them to assume them (e.g., undergraduate students at certain old universities).

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Accent lighting

Accent lighting focuses light on a particular area or object.

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Bokeh

In photography, bokeh (— also sometimes pronounced as) is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens.

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Canon EF 50mm lens

The EF 50mm lenses are a group of normal prime lenses made by Canon that share the same focal length.

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Canon EF portrait lenses

Canon makes several lenses for the EF lens mount and EF-S lens mount that are well-suited for portrait photography.

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Catch light

Catch light or catchlight is a light source that causes a specular highlight in a subject's eye in an image.

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Daguerreotype

The Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, and for nearly twenty years it was the one most commonly used.

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Depth of field

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography, the optical phenomenon known as depth of field (DOF), is the distance about the Plane of Focus (POF) where objects appear acceptably sharp in an image.

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Edward S. Curtis

Edward Sheriff Curtis (February 16, 1868 – October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American peoples.

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F-number

The f-number of an optical system (such as a camera lens) is the ratio of the system's focal length to the diameter of the entrance pupil.

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Field of view

The field of view is the extent of the observable world that is seen at any given moment.

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Fisheye lens

A fisheye lens is an ultra wide-angle lens that produces strong visual distortion intended to create a wide panoramic or hemispherical image.

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Flag (lighting)

A flag is a device used in lighting for motion picture and still photography to block light.

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Flash (photography)

A flash is a device used in photography producing a flash of artificial light (typically 1/1000 to 1/200 of a second) at a color temperature of about 5500 K to help illuminate a scene.

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Gel

A gel is a solid jelly-like material that can have properties ranging from soft and weak to hard and tough.

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George Hurrell

George Edward Hurrell (June 1, 1904 – May 17, 1992) was a photographer who contributed to the image of glamour presented by Hollywood during the 1930s and 1940s.

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Glamour photography

Glamour photography is a genre of photography in which the subjects are portrayed in erotic poses ranging from fully clothed to nude.

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Gobo (lighting)

A gobo is a stencil or template placed inside or in front of a light source to control the shape of the emitted light.

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Hard and soft light

Hard and soft light are different types of lighting that are commonly used in photography and filmmaking.

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Head shot

A head shot or headshot is a specific type of portrait where the focus is on person's face.

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film.

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Hidden mother photography

Hidden mother photography is a genre of photography common in the Victorian era in which young children were photographed with their mother present but hidden in the photograph.

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High key

A high-key image consists primarily of light tones, without dark shadows.

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Hollywood

Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.

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I Am Chicago

I Am Chicago is a documentary photography and video project by Adam Novak and Sara Collins.

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Imp

An imp is a mythological being similar to a fairy or goblin, frequently described in folklore and superstition.

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Joseph Petzval

Joseph Petzval (6 January 1807 – 19 September 1891) was a mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics.

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Large format

Large format refers to any imaging format of 4×5 inches (102×127 mm) or larger.

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Lens speed

Lens speed refers to the maximum aperture diameter, or minimum f-number, of a photographic lens.

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Letterman (sports)

A letterman, in U.S. activities/sports, is a high school or college student who has met a specified level of participation or performance on a varsity team.

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Lighting

Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve a practical or aesthetic effect.

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Mug shot

A mug shot or mugshot (an informal term for police photograph or booking photograph) is a photographic portrait of a person from the waist up, typically taken after a person is arrested.

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Necklace

A necklace is an article of jewelry that is worn around the neck.

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Normal lens

In photography and cinematography, a normal lens is a lens that reproduces a field of view that appears "natural" to a human observer.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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Painterliness

Painterliness is a concept based on the German term malerisch (painterly), a word popularized by Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945) to help focus, enrich and standardize the terms being used by art historians of his time to characterize works of art.

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Perspective distortion (photography)

In photography and cinematography, perspective distortion is a warping or transformation of an object and its surrounding area that differs significantly from what the object would look like with a normal focal length, due to the relative scale of nearby and distant features.

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Petzval lens

The Petzval objective or Petzval lens, is the first photographic portrait objective lens (160mm focal length) in the history of photography; It was developed by the German-Hungarian mathematics professor Josef Maximilian Petzval in 1840 in Vienna, with technical advice provided by, the Voigtländer company went on to build the first Petzval lens in 1840 on behalf of Petzval, and whereupon it became known throughout Europe.

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Photography

Photography is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Prime lens

In film and photography, a prime lens is a fixed focal length photographic lens (as opposed to a zoom lens, typically with a maximum aperture from f2.8 to f1.2. The term can also mean the primary lens in a combination lens system. Confusion between these two meanings can occur if context doesn't make the interpretation clear. People sometimes use alternate terms—primary focal length, fixed focal length, or FFL to avoid ambiguity.

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Reflector (photography)

In photography and cinematography, a reflector is an improvised or specialised reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene.

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Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Self-portrait

A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist.

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Senior (education)

In United States education, a senior is a student in the fourth year of study (generally high school or college/university study).

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Shot (filmmaking)

In filmmaking and video production, a shot is a series of frames, that runs for an uninterrupted period of time.

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Shutter speed

In photography, shutter speed or exposure time is the length of time when the film or digital sensor inside the camera is exposed to light, also when a camera's shutter is open when taking a photograph.

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Silhouette

A silhouette is the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject.

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Snoot

In photography, a snoot is a tube or similar object that fits over a studio light or portable flash and allows the photographer to control the direction and radius of the light beam.

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Soft focus

In photography, soft focus is a lens flaw, in which the lens forms images that are blurred due to spherical aberration.

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Softbox

A soft box is a type of photographic lighting device, one of a number of photographic soft light devices.

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Spherical aberration

Spherical aberration is an optical effect observed in an optical device (lens, mirror, etc.) that occurs due to the increased refraction of light rays when they strike a lens or a reflection of light rays when they strike a mirror near its edge, in comparison with those that strike close to the centre.

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Stage lighting accessories

Stage lighting accessories are components manufactured for conventional (non-automated) stage lighting instruments.

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Street photography

Street photography, also sometimes called candid photography, is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places.

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Strobe light

A strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light.

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Tuxedo

A tuxedo (American English), or dinner suit (British English), is a semi-formal three or two piece suit for evening wear, distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain jacket's lapels, and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers.

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Umbrella

An umbrella or parasol is a folding canopy supported by wooden or metal ribs, which is usually mounted on a wooden, metal, or plastic pole.

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Watermark

A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations in the paper.

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Whitby Goth Weekend

Whitby Goth Weekend abbreviated to WGW or referred to by attendees as Whitby, is a twice-yearly music festival for goths, in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, organised by Jo Hampshire.

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Yearbook

A yearbook, also known as an annual, is a type of a book published annually to record, highlight, and commemorate the past year of a school.

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135 film

135 is photographic film in a film format used for still photography.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_photography

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