Somewhat professional looking photos-
Highly Photoshopped photos-
Within portrait photos you can communicate identity through positioning and the background. Different styles and positions show your creative side or emphasize different factors that you find important such as the artistic style, location, etc… Photoshop is a powerful tool that allows you to fix any mistakes that were made during while taking the picture. If there are any blemishes on the subject it’s fairly easy to remove them in photoshop. Another thing you can do is remove things that are in the background that you don’t want in the background. For example, In one of the photos above I had to manually remove the reflection in the window behind the subject.