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Both painting and photography are art forms. In both the forms, you can have your portrait made. Portrait photography has come a long way from the Daguerreotype process of 1839 when the exposure time was about 10 minutes in bright sunlight, to the modern day digital cameras requiring split second exposure timings. Similarly, painting has also evolved from cave drawings to oils, pastels, and acrylic paintings. The term "art portrait" generally means portraits made by utilizing the medium of painting, rather than portraits made by photography. There are some unique advantages of art portraits that cannot be obtained by portraits made by photography.
Art portraits versus Photo portraits
- Art portraits are painted; hence, you can select any medium (oil, acrylic, pastel, or charcoal), any size (standard size or a custom size), and any background (even from different photos). With photo portraits, only a single photographic medium is available, a custom size is usually not possible, and choosing different backgrounds entails the usage of photo editing software which may not give you the desired effect that you want. Colored portraits can be made even from black and white photos, which is generally not possible in photo portraits.
- The subjects in an art portrait can be modified to suit compositional needs. Like you may want an arm to be more or less raised, the edges of the lips can be adjusted to give that perfect smile, the arch of the eyebrows can be changed to enhance the particular expression, wrinkles can be eliminated to give a younger look, etc. These special touches in a photo portrait may not be possible.
- The colors of an art portrait are rich and have layers upon layers in the RGB (Red, Blue, Green) color format that is natural to human eyes. The canvas absorbs the colors giving them a sense of depth and richer tones. Photo portraits have a CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) color format that cannot produce such depth and richness.
- Because of the layering of colors, reflection and refraction of the light is much better. It pleases and soothes the eyes. This is not possible in photo portraits as the layering is uniform giving the same reflection throughout the portrait. The highlights, midtones, and shadows are never appropriately visualized, as there is negligible or no refraction of light in a photo portrait.
- Canvas is a better archival material than paper on which photo portraits are made. Even the best quality of photo paper gets yellowish with time as old photographs do. Properly treated canvas does not fade or crack with time.
- Art portraits give a royal look and feel, which no photo portrait can possibly emulate.
We have highly talented artists who work full-time exclusively for us, so that they can give complete concentration towards the successful execution of your portrait. To select the medium of your liking, please click the links below to make an informed choice.
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