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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4601086, member: 19463"]A portrait attempts to capture the inner essence or personality of the subject. It is not just a picture with a person in it. Images of animals can be portraits but images made for passport use are generally not. In both cases the definition depends as much on the viewer. People project their feelings on even inanimate objects. When I was younger, people argued over whether their baby photos were showing 'personality' or 'just gas'. Portraits can include more that one person but they need to be relating with one another rather than just pasted together as are 99% of coin images with two rulers on one side of the coin. I suppose an image of a god or personification can have portrait characteristics but most strike me as pretty generic unless they are of a person pretending to be the god. </p><p><br /></p><p>All this is as much opinion as fact.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4601086, member: 19463"]A portrait attempts to capture the inner essence or personality of the subject. It is not just a picture with a person in it. Images of animals can be portraits but images made for passport use are generally not. In both cases the definition depends as much on the viewer. People project their feelings on even inanimate objects. When I was younger, people argued over whether their baby photos were showing 'personality' or 'just gas'. Portraits can include more that one person but they need to be relating with one another rather than just pasted together as are 99% of coin images with two rulers on one side of the coin. I suppose an image of a god or personification can have portrait characteristics but most strike me as pretty generic unless they are of a person pretending to be the god. All this is as much opinion as fact.[/QUOTE]
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