Portraiture

Portraiture photography is often usually to show the personality and even the mood of the photography. Portraiture photo is not a snapshot, but used to show an image of a person in a fixed position. A portrait usually shows a person looking straight at the camera. Portraiture photography try to capture an image that was not show on the camera. In the 60's the wealthy people wanted their wealth to be shown in the image so they could put on a superior look than others.

Michael is well known for his portraits of musicians, including The Killers, Oasis, Kasabian, La Roux, Ian Brown, Pixie Lott, Kaiser Chiefs, and Portishead to name just a few, and other celebrities from the worlds of sport, film, and music. Portraits are usualy shot in black and white, although using colour is a more modern thing.

Portraiture is common in everyday things in life. Advertisers use portraiture to advertise magazines. Companies and businesses like to use portraiture more than landscape as it does not take as much space as a portrait photo.

The style of texture is a main character in portraiture photography to make it noticeable, to compliment the texture to the background. Photographer may add effective texture to the whole of the image to create an impact..
 Portraiture it was mostly used for people from royal backgrounds, dukes and duchesses used as they could choose what they wore and what they looked like. To emphasize their wealth.