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Environmental portraits are generally meant to tell us something about our subject and well as capture their likeness.  If your subject is a pianist you would most likely photograph them sitting at their piano or in some way surrounded by music.  If they were an astronaut your most likely would not picture them at a base ball game.  There are reasons you would break the rules but the important point is that you want to tell a story about the subject.

This image of the mannequin tells her story in an indirect way.  Because of who (what) the subject is we automatically assume the out of focus background is some sort of store or shopping mall.  At first glance you might think she is moving through the scene.  The placement of the head off to the side allows us to see beyond her into the environment.

Perhaps the color or contrast could be altered to give her face a little less gray tone.  She does not look alive, what am I talking about she is not alive.  I wish the photographer could have gotten a little more detail and less black into the surroundings.  Also note the dark shadow under the chin.  It may have been caused by an on camera flash or just bad existing lighting.  At least you won’t get red eye with this model.

By the way I hope my wife doesn’t come home in this get up.

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