Our Portrait Photography Packages start from $750. If you are looking for the Best Portrait Photographer in the Hudson Valley / NYC Region, look no further!ĭuncan Avenue Portrait Photography Studio is here for all of your Portrait Photography needs on Location and in Our Studio in NYC or Hudson Valley, NY. He knows a great deal of importance of art direction and amazing portrait photography that tells a story and reflects one's personality. Max has more than a decade of experience in branding and marketing Fortune 500 Companies and Global Non-Profit Organizations. Your World-Class Lifestyle/Fashion/Portrait Photographer and Art Director Maxwell Alexander is Chief Design Officer at Duncan Avenue Group and holds a Master of Arts Degree from Fashion Institute of Technology and Bachelor of Fine Arts from School of Visual Arts in New York City. It easily makes you more comfortable in front of the camera and therefore produces more natural-looking portrait photographs as a result.ĭuncan Avenue Photography Studio specializes in revealing your story through professional yet artistic and creative portrait photography all around the Hudson Valley area including Orange, Rockland, Dutchess, Ulster, Putnam, Westchester, Greene, Rensselaer, Columbia, Saratoga, and Albany Counties. Creating a rapport is also another aspect of starting a portrait photoshoot with a conversation. It can be any subject, so long as you are cooperating and opening up. It will take a lot of skill and understanding for the photographer to do that, but such is required to reveal the true character of the subject.Įngaging you in a conversation is one way of doing it.įinding common ground for a topic can begin the studying of a person's likeness.
Having said that portrait photography isn't only about taking shots but rather it involves studying one's character, like observing for signals displaying the subject's mannerisms, expressions, body language, and even reactions.
But for the latter, it will take more work and proficiency to study the true essence of the subject otherwise it can be hard transporting this essence into the portrait. Others, on the other hand, have difficulty in doing the same.įor the portrait photographer, it would be easier to deal with the former type. There are just some who can easily convey their individual character or trait with immediate transparency. However, not all people are the same when it comes to expressing them. So, how do professional portrait photographers capture these character traits?Įach individual has unique characteristics, traits, attitudes, and features. Portrait photography, therefore, is not mere capturing of the image likeness but arresting the true character deeply formed in the subject a task that can be challenging as photographers can have subjects they have never known in their life. However, what one is consciously saying about them is that the photo reveals something that is very identifiable of the character of the subject. It is oftentimes that a viewer expresses agreeableness that the Portrait Photographer really captured the subject's likeness, which may be referred to as their exact physical likeness. The portrait photograph tells the viewer something that suggests the subject's individuality.
Elements may include the subject's attitude, personality, unique mannerisms, and any other traits or features that shape the very unique nature of the person. At least one element of the subject must be shown in the photo. I see portrait photography as your story told by Photographer, so it really has to do a lot with the training, experience, education and artistic abilities of the Storyteller.Ĭharacter revelation is the focus of portrait photography. Portrait photography, however, has a deeper connotation than that, being understood as a superior quality image capturing the individual's physical likeness, their character on a digital or film camera's sensor. People love to take selfies nowadays! A portrait is a captured likeness of the subject, in this case, a person, especially their face. Alexander, Designer, Photographer, Creative Director, Certified Fitness Trainer, Certified Bodybuilding Coach, Certified Sports Nutritionist The Essence of the Best Portrait Photography