"portrait shot" is an accurate and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a type of photograph that is taken from the front, and is usually focused on the face of the person or subject in the photograph. For example, "My family took a portrait shot together at the beach."
It's good for tweaking any portrait shot.
Almost anyone would have hankered to have a personal portrait shot by Cecil Beaton.
He had his portrait shot by Iain Macmillan – the photographer behind the Beatles Abbey Roadd cover – and from the age of 18 was contributing briefings about mods and rockers to the Observer.
Anton Corbijn, the Dutch portrait photographer long resident in Britain, made his directorial debut three years ago with Control, an accomplished portrait, shot in black and white, of the doomed rock musician Ian Curtis who committed suicide in 1980.
This parallax error is insignificant with distant subjects; with near ones it is responsible for the familiar fault of a portrait shot of a head that appears partly cut off in the picture even though it was fully visible in the finder.
Among the recent visitors was Steve McCurry, a photographer whose work has appeared for decades in National Geographic including his well-known cover portrait, shot in Kodachrome, of a Afghan girl that highlights what he describes as the "sublime quality" of the film.
With the help of the farm employees, Peckmezian used toys and food to persuade the cats to alternately jump around and sit still for some portrait shots.
Portrait shots of Mr. Bush alternate with campaign footage from previous commercials, showing the candidate talking to supporters outside a New Hampshire town hall meeting and working a crowd in warmer weather.
Food is big on Instagram, so are baby photos – and I know you'll agree, we all can't get enough of those – also, shots of people's desks, non-interesting trees taken from train windows during signal failures, photos of booze, and not forgetting incredibly flattering portrait shots; self-taken, cropped, blurred and put through a Hollywood-style filter.
I was a bit groggy by this time, but I distinctly remember some bits of cinefilm, all smeary and over-exposed, and I think he belted me with several of those arty portrait shots - where the interviewee stands very still so you can't be quite sure whether it's a photograph or not.
Landscapes vs portrait shots are probably a safer bet.
