Portrait Photography

Portrait photography can help show everyone your best you. In the visual world your image is your first impression. Therefore having a photographer who knows how to bring out and highlight the best version of you is crucial to showing a top quality image. 

These days everyone has a good friend or an uncle with a “nice camera” . I know this might sound like enough. However, its not. A trained eye for beauty and light are more important. Everyone has seen the billboards with the iPhone pictures that look amazing.  This is a prefect example of how a good eye can trump a hobbyist with some expensive gear.  To quote Neal Peart ” Its not the pots and pans that make the cook”. Similarly this is true with photography and any art for that matter. 

At Sean Bolton Photography we break down our portrait photography into 2 categories, studio portraits and environmental portraiture. Studio portraiture is exactly what is sounds like, a portrait in a studio environment. One key advantage to this approach is the ability to control lighting and  look without many challenges from the elements. In the studio the sun , wind or other weather elements that will make a photo hard to deal with are no problem. Great shots have been ruined by a gust of wind or  a fickle cloud.

On the other hand some advantages of environmental portraits are a more “natural” or “in place” look. Not to mention the host of amazing landscapes and scenes the earth has to offer that are a shutter click away.  In my experience it is fun to bring some studio elements to the great outdoors for a nice hybrid approach.  I feel its gives a subject more “pop” at times.