Platon

I do have my own personal convictions and values, and I live by those. But as an artist, as a portrait photographer, my job is to tell the truth and to capture someone's spirit on a certain day. And it's never the whole truth; it's the truth I experience in a very intense and intimate fashion.

Greek Photographer

Tali Lennox

I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.

British Model

Kyle Hill

Sherlock is a portrait of humanity - he takes nature's gift of thought and runs with it, bringing along all the human struggles, fears, and insecurities. He's the hero we could see ourselves being.

American Author

Gustav Klimt

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

Austrian Artist

Galen Rowell

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

American Photographer

Richard Avedon

Fashion is where I make my living. I'm not knocking it; it's a pleasure to make a living that way. Then there's the deeper pleasure of doing my portraits.

Clare-Hope Ashitey

Sadly, I think that 'Children of Men' has only become an increasingly relevant and realistic portrait of where we are in the world.

English Actress

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Jhumpa Lahiri

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Fay Godwin

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.

British Photographer

The term usually denotes human subjects, not landscapes or objects.

Human Focus

Portraits often aim to convey a person's character or mood.

Emotional Depth

Despite usually being visual, 'portrait' can also be used metaphorically.

Not Just Visual

Portraits can describe inner qualities, not just outward appearances.

Beyond Appearance

A narrative portrait can provide a deep understanding of context and backstory.

Narrative Power

Portraits can symbolize broader themes or ideas.

Symbolic Use

In technology, 'portrait' refers to vertical orientation of screens.

Screen Orientation

For documents, portrait is the standard layout, especially for text-heavy pages.

Printing Preference

Photos and videos of people are often better suited in portrait mode.

Visual Content

 I'm a photographer, this is what I do for a living. I chase these moments, these fractions of seconds, that will never be the same again. You can't take this picture again because I took it, and he's no longer with us, sadly, rest in peace. The definitive portrait of that person, in that moment, is what I strive for every single time out,

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 but the sharpness of your photo will decrease very quickly from your focus point, backward and forward. This is what we call shallow depth of field. If we have a very small aperture, we'll have less light but a deeper depth of field. For portraits, it can be nice to have a sharp figure separate from a somewhat blurry background

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 seemingly changing the scene from a simple depiction of court life to that of a royal portrait. And with this piece of information, we can begin to understand far more about the painting and why it has captivated viewers for centuries. First, there's the historical context.

Why is this painting so...

 Even as you see that though, some part of you recognizes in the image a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing.

The art of the metaphor...

 after the riots which followed as you know the death of a young black man named Freddie gray who was said to have been killed while while in police custody and I think by choosing these young people you're going to see a portrait of some of the things that

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 For times when you're not dealing with counterfeit masterminds, looking for simple visual cues will do. Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points, the inked border is unbroken,

How to spot a...

 that we observe from afar in many of Vermeer's paintings. A girl reading a letter. A piano lesson. A portrait artist at work. These paintings give us a sense of intimacy while retaining their distance,

Why is Vermeer's "Girl...

 it's a perfect shot with this piano in the back red plastic three flops portraits of the leaders not to mention the seriously there's that rare moment of actual truth she's literally looking

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 many of these squabbles end in tragedy as the portrait is trampled to death