What is Environmental Portraiture? 

An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography.

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Analysis

Lighting: this photo was taken indoors with a source of light from an open door with natural light. The direction of light was from the right side of the photo.

Environment: the location this photo was taken in a barn of cows. This tells us that this farmer is at work milking the cows using traditional milking machine.

Framing and Approach: in this photo the photo captures a full length body photo of the man sitting down. This photo seems to be informal as its taken midway through the man doing his job. In addition to this, we can see he has a natural facial expression from his side profile as well as a natural pose sitting down. In this photo there are also a vary of cows who are captured whilst they are naturally walking around.

Gaze: This mans gaze is averted as he is not looking directly at the camera. This links to the photo being informal and un-posed.