Still life photography is making pictures of inanimate subjects. Portrait photography is the opposite; it’s about making pictures of animated subjects. Yet the photo techniques of the two are the same.
What separates still life photography from portrait photography is that the former is still while the latter should have (e)motion.
A still life is about the photograph but a portrait is about the subject.
In a still life, the photographer is visibly important. But in a portrait, the photographer should be invisible.
It took me a long time to understand this.
Still Life and Portraits
