In today's Daily Critique Craig looks at a powerful portrait and discusses the following:

 

- the creative power of getting out of our comfort zone and going past a fear

 

- focal length and working distance in portraiture

 

- using a shallow depth of field to help our portrait subject separate from the background

 

- dynamic placement of the portrait subject

 

- how important hands can be in a portrait

 

- shooting lots of variations when we photograph people

 

- converting to black and white when the overlay of color is potentially visually overwhelming the main subject