ABSTRACT
Once the technical elements of lighting and capturing a portrait have been set up and nailed down, readers are left with a consideration that is very specific to portraiture. In landscape photography, the elements can combine to create a pleasing vista, but the viewer won't notice if one tree has branches in slightly the wrong direction or is leaning the wrong way. In portraiture, the composition of the subject within the scene and how they carry and arrange themselves make all the difference between photographs that have impact and those that either look ordinary or fail altogether. Depth of field is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects within the image. The photographer determines which objects are in sharp focus.
