Portrait photography tip: Portrait without a face

Thursday 23 April 2020, 16:32 by Elja Trum | 6,018 views | 0 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

When taking a portrait, it goes without saying that you expect to see a face in the frame. Of course, you can also move away from this to create a very different kind of photo.

Jip - f/2.5, 1/100s, 3200 ISO @ 85mm
You can of course debate whether a portrait without a face is still really a portrait. In many cases, you can still recognise the person in question this way, but it is of course a fairly unusual composition for a portrait.

I would especially recommend taking a few photos during a shoot where your subject's face is not in the frame. At the very least, this provides a nice change from the rest of the shoot and may give you some other creative ideas.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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