Darren Rowse offers this thoughts why he prefers environmental portraits:
“They give context to the subject you’re photographing. They give points of interest to shots (something you need to watch as you don’t want to distract from your subject too much). They help your subject relax. They often give the viewer of your shots real insight into the personality and lifestyle of your subject.”
This article also provides some tips on taking environmental portraits, as shows some examples of environmental portraiture from Flickr’s vast catalog.
The article lives here.
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