All three of these are portraits, more or less. The first is an environmental portrait of a fellow photographer at the seashore in Pacific Grove. Clearly a portrait, but he’s relatively small in the frame. This was taken with my medium-format film camera.
This is a street portrait of two women selling cosmetics at an outdoor market in Jack London Square. Nice smiles—and I didn’t ask them not to smile, as I often do. Taken with my 35mm film camera.
Here’s a portrait of, well, not a person, but a statue. The contrast between the white statue and the dark background was so good, I wanted to capture it on film.
My personal preference is for environmental portraits; I’m not a fan of headshots. I don’t even have a lens longer than 75mm now, and that one mostly gathers dust on my shelf.
