Portraiture- Definition post

Dictionary definition- a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
Personal definition- an image which depicts a subjects face or head.

Candid- a photograph of a person taken informally, especially without the subject's knowledge.

Posed- to assume a particular position in order to be photographed, painted, or drawn.

Portraits can conform to old fashioned portrait formats such as being face on.

Or they can break away from traditional practices to create far more interesting but less standardised images which can form a more emotional connection with the viewer.

The second image has an element of mystery due to the fact that the subject is not looking directly at the camera like the subject in the first image is.