Portraits Research

I have been given  a new assignment which is studio portrait which I am looking forward to as I'll be taught to use lighting professionally, experiencing the digital workflow and to be introduce to the photographic Lab where I can now know how to print out coloured prints as before I was learning black and white due to doing street photography. 

The photographic studio portrait has been used since the 1850s. Portraiture's tradition has followed the artists of the 15th and 16th centuries that has been specially made by privileged paint portraits to display wealth and honour.   Portrait photographers aim to focus on the person's face to reinforce identities, characteristics and mood, tell stories and to convey messages but entire body, props and the background may be included. In the 19th century the camera invention was made and was fairly a low cost of the daguerreotype and reduced sitting time of the subject which led to a rise in the popularity or portrait photography over painted portraits. Photographers style in these early works had challenges with long exposures, they seated their subjects against plain backgrounds and lit them up with soft light of an overhead window and whatever else could be reflected with mirrors.