Types Of Family Portraits In Gold coast

Posted by Ali Tariq on July 29th, 2019

Portrait photography is a type of photography which devotes to capturing people with their families and their personalities. Byron bay wedding photographer are nothing new for the race of humans as it dates back to old times. Even before the invention of the camera, the richer families used to hire painters to paint their portraits. Even this whole concept dates back, we still are not aware of how many new types of portrait photography are there.


Traditional portraits are the most basic type of family portrait. In this portrait the people face towards the camera and picture is taken professionally. The photography is set up in the studio which has a special backdrop to make everything look formal. Traditional portrait photography dates back to old times as it resembles the original family portrait Gold Coast pictures used to be captured. It still holds its popularity due to the simple and formal style of lightning and poses. This photography also deals with professional photography for business in formal attire. Lifestyle photography is the next type which is the total opposite of traditional photography. It is shot in usual surroundings which are part of your everyday life. This includes no formality and captures moments with your loved ones. It gives the look of comfort as there are no restrictions. Environmental portraits are a recent addition. They are family portraits shot in natural surroundings like trees, parks etc. This gives more of a fresh and breezy look to these pictures. The main thing in this photoshoot is the location of the shoot. The location refers to a place where the person has some kind of attachment to whether it is an event of an old memory. In this shoot, you get the advantage of natural lightning which has to be according to time of the day so light gets your best angles. Sometimes, the memorable place can be an old house of building too, which takes away the advantage but still shows a fragment of the client’s personality. The most random out of this list are candid portraits, as seen by its name. There is no setup, no formalities, no posing. These pictures are not usually booked for. A photographer takes them for people they just met of anyone passing by who want their portrait to be taken. It often can be of nature or weather which captivated a photographer’s eyes to take the picture. This is by far the rawest type of photoshoot, coming after lifestyle photography. This can be sometimes seen similar to lifestyle Gold Coast portrait photography discussed before but there is one difference. In lifestyle shoot, the camera is directed towards a specific action (that can be group hug or running around for kids) and a person or group while in candid no instructions are made and no one is the main person of the picture. Next is a Beauty Portrait. This can be defined as special photography of people or families in up to date clothing and makeup with the pose. This is more of a glamour shot than Gold Coast portrait photography but still keeps its place in portraits. Photography also includes creativity which can be seen in fine arts portraits. These portraits show different ideas by using nature and other different aspects to capture most different and creative pictures. You can get creative by using a theme to express the photo-shoot. It can be either historical look or simple creative new style. You can incorporate nature, different locations and wardrobe pieces to show your inner artist.  This is mostly for teenagers as they are more interested in doing this type of photo-shoot. Conceptual portraits use another aspect of creativity and mix it in the picture. Like conceptual, a concept is taken and shown in the picture by the help of props. The concept can be as unrealistic as you want it to be, it doesn’t matter. The main point is to show that piece of imagination to others by your editing and props use. Surreal portraits are also similar to them. Different editing tools are used to give a normal photo a dream-like look which cannot be possible to set up at all. It can be a playful use of colours or gore picture with blood used in it. Last, are self-portraits and family portraits Gold Coast which are the most basic type of portraits showing a family picture in a single click perfect to be framed.

  • Byron Bay wedding photographer

Like it? Share it!


Ali Tariq

About the Author

Ali Tariq
Joined: April 19th, 2018
Articles Posted: 930

More by this author