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Portrait Pics

  • 25-10-2006 10:31AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭


    What defines a portrait picture - is it the typical face and shoulders kinda thing or can it be of something else??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 494 ✭✭paudie


    I call portraits anything where a person is the focus, but not if they're playing a sport or singing, just a person standing there being a person?

    How's that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭eas


    Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary says :

    Main Entry: por·trait
    Pronunciation: 'por-tr&t, -"trAt
    Function: noun
    Etymology: Middle French, from past participle of portraire
    1 : PICTURE; especially : a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face
    2 : a sculptured figure :
    3 : a graphic portrayal in words


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭Roen


    Formal, informal, candid, posed....the list goes on. Good money in pet portraiture too so it doesn't even have to have a person in it.
    It's a portait if you say it is, or for that matter, if you can get away with it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭mikeanywhere


    Thank you everyone, thats a great help!!


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