Environmental Portraits

What are they??

Environmental portraits are simply images which have been captured within your world including your home, workplace, cabin or somewhere else you like to spend time. Environmental portraits are wonderful because they help to weave a rich tapestry of your history into your photographs. Whether it be your hand picked hard wood flooring, beautiful wallpaper , special wall color or a room that you worked hard to design and create, all of it can be incorporated into your images.

You can get studio style portraits in YOUR home!! Proper lighting is essential, and with portable lighting solutions Natanis is prepared to capture the story of your life right here, right now!

Environmental Portrait ideas:

  • Your deck or yard
  • Bedrooms
  • Living areas
  • Kitchen tables are great for baby pictures, or small children
  • Your fireplace
  • Hardwood or laminate floors
  • Bold / pretty wallpaper
  • Colored walls
  • Stone facades inside or outside
  • Outside living spaces
  • Your yard
  • Working with horses / cattle
  • Corrals
  • Heavy equipment
  • Bridges, railroad tracks
  • Old vehicles
  • Cabin or cottage
  • The Beach
  • Simply anywhere you love to be!

Some meaningful things to include in your portraits:

  • Musical instruments
  • Sports equipment (racing shoes, ballet slippers, football jerseys, basketballs, tennis rackets, snow boards/skis, Boxing gloves, etc)
  • Vehicles
  • Motorbikes
  • Hobby items such as pottery, paintings (or painting brushes & easels etc.) model cards, train sets, books etc.
  • Pets – Dogs, cats, horses, etc.
  • Anything you love from your hobbies, work home, surroundings and pastimes.


All images and text are © Natanis Davidsen - 2010