Portrait Photography

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Portrait photography or portraiture is photography of a person or group of people that displays the expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although the entire body and the background or context may be included.

There are many different techniques for portrait photography.This photo was taken by an ABSI official last year using a profesional Nikon SLR . Often it is desirable to capture the subject's eyes and face in sharp focus while allowing other less important elements to be rendered in a soft focus. At other times, portraits of individual features might be the focus of a composition such as the hands, eyes or part of the subject's torso.Additionally another style such as head shot has came out of the portraiture technique and had become a style on its own.

Lenses used in portrait photography are classically fast, medium telephoto lenses, though any lens may be used, depending on artistic purposes. See Canon EF Portrait Lens for Canon lenses in this style; other manufacturers feature similar ranges. The first dedicated portrait lens was the Petzval Lens developed in 1840 by Joseph Petzwal. It had a relatively narrow field of view of 30 degrees, a focal length of 150mm, and a fast f-number in the f/3.3-3.7 range.

source: Canon Lens Review Book, Wikipedia

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