So here's another post about what I used to photograph, this one's about portraiture. I was trained in "classic" portrait photography. Studio photography was all about the main light, the fill light and the hair light. Photographers needed to know the effects of light and how to control it. Poses consisted of a full, three quarter and profile views. This was the basics, what you had to know, what you should know to do your job. You need to know the rules before can successfully break them. Note that the examples that I show here are not so static and are more relaxed examples. In my opinion, the main thing to learn about portraiture is how you deal with the subject of the photograph; successful photographers know how to get the best out of the people that they’re shooting, all in the short period of time that they have available. Initially that was my problem, when I first started shooting portraits I was never too comfortable one-on-one in what was basically a cont