Portraits are about people. Environmental portraits are about people and what they do with their lives. They are about the kind of house a person lives in, the type of place that they work, or surrounded by the things that they love to do. Portraits tell us a story about the person, helps us to understand the subject a little bit better. The aim of a portrait is to capture the personality of its subjects. Whether artistic, clinical or even cynical in nature, the use for portraits is wide ranging from personal to marketing, and every thing in-between . Portraits are often commissioned for special occasions such as weddings, engagements, school events or commercial purposes such editorials, publication pieces, even simple headshots.