Timeline for Why are most portraits taken with the subject at 45 degrees to the camera?
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| Jan 12, 2011 at 15:50 | comment | added | Craig Walker | OTOH, most guides for portraits suggest avoiding "square shoulders" from a straight-on perspective. Perhaps the question is best reworded to be "at an angle" rather than "at 45 degrees". | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 12:06 | comment | added | Nick Bedford | Indeed, many of the portraits I take are looking straight down the barrel. That being said, many of my subjects are fairly attractive people either in music or close to it so I guess they can pull it off. | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 8:44 | history | answered | Jędrek Kostecki | CC BY-SA 2.5 |