Image Bank - Back Of Head Portraiture

Here are some photos of the back of peoples heads. Back of head photos are when you take a photo of the back of someones head. The reason that people do this is because it takes focus away from the face and focus of actually taken a photo of the shape of the head. This makes taking a photo of the front of someone easier because you can get the correct position for their head and then you can focus on the face.

Here we see the photographer has taken a photo of the back of a person on a white background and has decided to take a section of the hair and have that on the left side, keep a bit of shoulder and have a blurred background as to add to the interest of the hair style.

Here wee see the photographer has taken an image of more of the back of a person and has included a green tint. We also see that they have starched their arms up and that we can see quite a bit of their back.

In this image we see that the photographer has taken some photos of the back of someones head at the sea-side and has made the background look grainy.

In this image we see that a person has shaved their hair and then decided to get a tattoo of a barcode on the back of his head. This gives the view a point of interest on which they can focus on.

Here we see the photographer has taken a photo of a woman with curly blonde hair and what looks like at the bottom a wedding dress.

This photographer has taken an image of a girl in a forest and decided to change the tone of the image to black and white to match the background.