The phrase "straight portrait" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is a common way to describe a particular style or type of portrait photography. Example: The art exhibit featured a diverse range of works, from abstract paintings to traditional landscapes, but it was the straight portraits that caught my eye. Their simplicity and raw emotion left a lasting impression on me.
"Dad's really good fun to take pictures of, because he likes to make it interesting for himself, he doesn't just want to do a straight portrait.
It's a straight portrait of the company during a busy period, replete with characters who could have been working for Mike Baldwin.
Maybe they drew a straight portrait, but there would be dollar signs on the CEO's tie or devil horns or something like that.
As well as straight portraits, he painted in Suffolk a number of delightful spontaneous groups of small figures in landscapes closely related to conversation pieces.
"I avoided straight portraits and focussed on details like hands, faces with eyes closed, or girls from behind," Seiler told me.
Again, he combined taking "straight" portraits of local customers with inventing his own cut up techniques, influenced as much by cubism and modernism in art as by traditional photo-collage.
I'm not talking about the straight portraits, but works like The Seven Acts of Mercy, where it looks as though he's looked at seven different incidents and then pieced together a picture out of these incidents.
Prior to that I was doing primarily straight portraits in colored pencil or regular pencil.
Predictably, "The Grandmaster" is, given this filmmaker, less a straight biographical portrait of Ip Man and more an exploration of opposing forces like loyalty and love, horizontal and vertical, and the geometry of bodies moving through space and time.
This is a pretty straight up portrait as well, but you see the fence background — bars and lines like this can give the Depth Effect fits.
Most portraits are shot under photographer-controlled conditions, but this work did not have the feel of straight portraiture.
