Portrait Photography System

Portrait photography is a trendy commercial industry all over the earth. Numerous people enjoy having professionally finished family portraits to hang up in their homes, or special portraits to remember certain events, such as graduations or wedding ceremony.

Since the dawn of picture making, people have prepared portraits. The attractiveness of the daguerreotype in the heart of the 19th century was due in great part to the demand for low-priced portraiture. Studios spring up in cities around the earth, a few cranking out more than 500 plates a day. The technique of these early works reflects the technical challenges connected with 30-second exposure times and the painterly artistic of the time. Subjects were usually seated next to plain backgrounds and lit with the soft brightness of an overhead window and anything else might be reflected with mirrors.

As photographic system developed, a fearless group of photographers took their talent out of the studio and onto battleground, across oceans and into distant wilderness.