About Portraits

National Photographer Portrait Photographers offer you a wide range of portrait services. There are many types of Portraints, that start as a refelection of what you do, and how you are; to Glamour portraits boudoir and family Portraits.
Protraits are an artistic representation of a person ( or group), in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer

Our Benefits

National Photographer Provides Clients with a member photographer which carries out portrait photography, the photographer will have been inspected to ensure the quality of their work and service to ensure that you the client are in the best hands.
National Photographer has two directories, One member and another listing photographer from all around the UK making it easy for you to find the right photographer.
Photographers who fail run the risk of being struck off our lists which means that they will be named and shamed within this website.

What We Do

For Clients: Ease of use website to find the photographers that you are looking for in your local area. we have to directories of photographers, one being members and another which is a mix of member photographers and other photographers from across the UK. If you have a problem we will do our best to reslove the issue with you, and most of all; you have a choice of photographers.

Become a Member of National Photographer

Portrait photography is a popular commercial industry all over the world. Many people enjoy having professionally made family portraits to hang in their homes, or special portraits to commemorate certain events, such as graduations or weddings.
Since the dawn of photography, people have made portraits. The popularity of the daguerreo type in the middle of the 19th century was due in large part to the demand for inexpensive portraiture. Studios sprang up in cities around the world, some producing more than 500 plates a day. The style of these early works reflected the technical challenges associated with 30-second exposure times and the painterly aesthetic of the time. Subjects were generally seated against plain backgrounds and lit with the soft light of an overhead window and whatever else could be reflected with mirrors. Much has changed in the way Portraits are taken with fashion dictating as much as photographic equipment has changed leading to branches of differing styles and looks to portrait photographers.
As photographic techniques developed, an intrepid group of photographers took their talents out of the studio and onto battlefields, across oceans and into remote wilderness. William Shew 's Daguerreotype Saloon , Roger Fenton 's Photographic Van and Mathew Brady 's What-is-it? wagon set the standards for making portraits and other photographs in the field.

Portait Photography and services, fall under different objective's, such as Caricatures, Enviromental Portraits, Head shots (head and shoulders) Glamour Photography, Nude Photography (not to be confused with Glamour) and Boudoir Photography.
Portrait Photographers may also be used for fashion and modeling photoshoots, but people should be aware that there is a great difference between the two and while one photographer maybe great at protraits they may not be a good choice for fashion styled Model card (Z-cards).

Our Member Portrait Photographers:

Photography Types	Name	Locations	Mini Website
Portraits, Family, Glamour, Boudoir Portfolios, Commercial	Grafixphoto	Midlands and South West West London	Grafixphoto
Portraits, Fashion, Events	Marta Stoyanova	London, North Midlands	Marta Stoyanova

Our Database of Portrait Photographers (contains members and none members)