Environmental Portraits

Hey team here's a sweet intro to environmental portraits:

http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/environmental-portraits/

(the above website is very concise n easy to read!)

• they give context to the subject you’re photographing
• they give points of interest to shots (something you need to watch as you don’t want to distract from your subject too much)
• they help your subject relax
• they often give the viewer of your shots real insight into the personality and lifestyle of your subject

here are some examples:

http://www.dennyrenshaw.com/environmental_one.php

http://www.asmp.org/culture/gallery/environmental.php

http://www.timeout.com/chicago/article/15705/thinking-about-inking (tattoo artists)


and this is a v famous env portrait photographer

http://www.pdngallery.com/legends/newman/

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0312/an_index.html

good environmental portraits really exude attitude!