what is studio portraiture?

a versatile genre of photography that can include high key photographs, which are full of light, or low key photographs, which will be highly contrasted. studio portraits allow you to use lighting to enhance the images and create a more interesting and eye catching image. in the studio the light is completely controlled by the photographer, so we can change the lighting to allow for there to be lots of different moods to be captured.

mood board of studio portraiture

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above are photographs from various photographers, that i would like to relate to and try to take some inspiration from. the ones annotated with a ‘+’ are from photographers that i would like to look at with more detail.

photographers i would like to look at further

• DAVID BAILEY
• JILL GREENBERG