Portrait Photography in Wanowrie, Pune

Doing the thing

A portrait of somebody working is a different photograph from a portrait of somebody standing still.

The second is what everybody books and the first is what people actually respond to, because there is something going on in it.

Somebody at a bench, at a desk mid-thought, with the tools of whatever they do — those read as a person rather than as a headshot.

They are also easier to sit for, because nobody has to think about what to do with their hands.

Where a formal headshot is required, that still gets taken and it takes a few minutes.

The working portrait is the addition, and it is the one that gets used everywhere a headshot would look stiff.

It needs the actual place rather than a studio, which is the only real requirement.

It is worth photographing the place as well as the person, where the place is part of what they do.

A workbench, a desk with its particular chaos, the tools laid out however that person lays them out.

Those frames sit alongside a portrait and explain considerably more about somebody than a headshot does.

It is also worth including the hands.

For anybody who makes or repairs anything, hands doing the work are frequently more recognisable than a face and they are almost never photographed.

It costs two frames and it is usually the image people end up using.