Portraits

In the last twenty years the look and style of portrait photography has cycled through many phases.

In my formative years, lighting was absolutely critical to the a photography being transmuted to a ‘Portrait’. I studied tomes of works by Master Photographers whose use of light was very regimented - even the shadow cast by a nose in photography had to be at the right angle, the right position and the right length to be acceptable.

However, if you study the works of art from the likes of Bailey, Donovan, ONeill and Lichfield, you soon realise that another route to "The Portrait" is by capturing the essence of the subject, and every photographer has their own interpreptation of character and personality.