1. You can do anything as long it works for you.
  2. An image of a person.
  3. Evokes emotion.
  4. Tells us something about the person in the image.
  5. Composition is a key element.
  6. Every image has two people behind it.
  7. Photography is both an art and a science.
  8. Complex decision in photography, to identify visual storytelling potential.
  9. Decide how much time you are willing to wait until the story materializes.
  10. Include almost no background to avoid interference from the environment.
  11. Cropping in tight is allowed to cut off part of the head as long as it helps the visual story you want to tell.
  12. For it to be portrait there needs to be a person and a sense of story.
  13. By the rules composition should give the sense of power.
  14. Think about it before the creation of the frame.
  15. Sometimes by over thinking the subject might lose patience.