The process of painting a picture or taking a photograph of a person is called portraiture. If an art exhibit only includes pictures of faces, you can describe its focus as portraiture. Portraiture is the art of making a portrait, which is a close study of one person.

Portrait and Portraiture: As nouns the difference between portrait and portraiture is that portrait is a painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders while portraiture is a portrait; a likeness; a painted resemblance; hence, that which is copied from some example or model.

Couple Portraits
Family Portraits
Group Portraits

Family Portraits?… At its most basic, the family portrait is a group photo. The subjects are often members of the same family. It’s like a record of who’s part of the family and highlights the relationship between the people in it. The classic family Portrait shows the family in a studio, posed as a group, facing the camera.

Conceptual Photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea. There have been illustrative photographs made since the medium’s invention, for example in the earliest staged photographs, such as Hippolyte Bayard’s Self portrait as a Drowned Man (1840).

Lifestyle photography is a style portrait photography that aims to capture real-life situations in an artistic manner. While a lifestyle approach can be taken in any people-centric type of photography, many consider this style to be best represented in family photos.

Notes for Photoshoots

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