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Do you love to take photographs and display these to everyone, but don’t know how to make those boring photos look alluring? Or are you someone who owns a photo studio and keen to astonish your customers by creating dazzling portraits with their pictures? Or are you a professional photographer who loves to make your photographs truly delightful? Whatever your imagination may be with photographs, a number of online portrait stores let you turn your photos into the eye-catching portraits.

Portraits are defined as photographs, sculptures, paintings or any other artistic representation in which the person’s appearance and face is predominant. Portraits are painted to exhibit the intensity of the personality, likeness and the present mood of the person. It is a better idea to search an artist who specializes in creating portrait. No matter, whether you desire to have live portraits or photo portraits, the highly qualified and experienced portrait artists can create the best portraits for you at the rock bottom prices.

Portraits come up in different forms such as self-portrait, portrait paintings and so on. Countless known and acclaimed portraits available, but one of the most recognized portraits is the “Mona Lisa” drawn by Leonardo da Vinci.

Types of portraits

At first, it is important to know the different types of portraits which people can take. There are three basic types of portraits such as close-ups or head shots, head and shoulder shots and environmental shots. An environmental shot is a kind of portrait where the photographer concentrates on the subject and the environment that encloses the subject.

Qualified and well experienced artists are keen to help you in creating portraits according to your requirements. And customer chooses portraits depending upon the purpose of the portrait and the mood he/she wants to communicate. A great environmental portrait works to demonstrate your mentality to viewers. It is advised to place family portraits light and lively areas of the home, such as the living room, dining hall. Now the time has come to search a reliable online store that offers diverse prepared portraits at economical rates or boasts painters for specific requirements of customers.

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A portrait basically represents a painting, photograph, sculpture or any other artistic representation of a person, where the face and its expressions predominant. Through it the likeness, personality and mood of the person is expressed. The history of portrait trails behind to Egyptian culture where the portraits were made of funeral rather than kings or emperors. It flourished during the Roman culture. Later canvas of elite kings, priests, warriors and even distinguished artisans were made representing several stages of their lives. One of the most renowned paintings worldwide is of Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso’s The Old Guitarist.

Portrait Photography

With the dawn of photography, the face of portrait has changed massively. Photography came into existence since the 19th century. And it revolutionized the oil painting phase. It became comparatively inexpensive and time saving affair. With just 30 sec. exposure time, and better quality output as compare to canvas painting, it soon became mass appeal. Trends have changed a lot since and we are into a new phase of commission portrait where recreation of the photograph into canvas is done with same perseverance of the essence of the original photo. Portrait photography has become a popular commercial industry all over the world nowadays. Many people want professional made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special photos to honor special events as weddings and graduation etc.

Techniques for Portrait Photography

•    Quality of lighting has major impact on final output of photograph with respect to quality. Good lighting leads to proper visibility of the subject. The better the visibility the clearer the photograph.

•    The subject backdrop is equally relevant in context to lighting. Contrast backdrop colour is essential for good output of the image. There are three types of lighting namely key lighting, fill lighting and hair lighting. The key light is the main light for the subject. The fill light fills in shadow appearing on the subject’s face caused by key lighting. Hair lighting illuminates the subject from above so that it visually distinguishes the subject from the backdrop.

Advantages of Photography over Painting

Portraits made in canvas are no doubt a prized collection. But they are yet not common man’s cup of tea. Canvas paintings are tough to preserve for long time. And they are very expensive with respect to money and time. In case of portrait photography, hardly thirty seconds are required to capture the precious moments. They are printed on paper so need less storage capacity. They don’t need extra precautions for their perseverance. They have longer life, cheaper and better with respect to output. And the best thing about it is that even an amateur can handle it, yielding comparatively good result.