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Photography: left/right semi-profile

Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English? (context: taking photographs of suspects). I've just googled the web for it and there were no hits. Maybe this is expressed in some other way in English?

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[nq:1]Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English? (context: taking photographs of suspects). I've just googled the web for it and there were no hits.

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  • [nq:1]Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English?
  • (context: taking photographs of suspects).
  • I've just googled the web for it and there were no hits.
  • [/nq] I don't know what criminologists call them, but such an image might be described as a left or right "oblique" view, or perhaps a "three-quarters" view.
  • Odysseus
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[nq:1]Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English? (context: taking photographs of suspects). I've just googled the web for it and there were no hits. Maybe this is expressed in some other way in English?[/nq]
I don't know what criminologists call them, but such an image might be described as a left or right "oblique" view, or perhaps a "three-quarters" view.

Odysseus
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[nq:1]Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English? (context: taking photographs of suspects). I've just googled the web for it and there were no hits. Maybe this is expressed in some other way in English?[/nq]
Search on "mug shots", which is the term in the USA at least. The side view is called a profile shot. I'm not sure what a semi-profile would mean, since a profile is only
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[nq:2]Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English? ... Maybe this is expressed in some other way in English?[/nq]
[nq:1]Search on "mug shots", which is the term in the USA at least. The side view is called a profile shot. I'm not sure what a semi-profile would mean, since a profile is only from one side.[/nq]
Either side, but one side at a time.
[nq:2]Kamil[/nq]
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Uzytkownik "meirman" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci
[nq:1]Search on "mug shots", which is the term in the USA at least. The side view is called a profile shot. I'm not sure what a semi-profile would mean, since a profile is only from one side.[/nq]
Thank you for your help! This "semi-profile" (as literally translated from Polish) is simply a three-quarter view.
As in here:
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Uzytkownik "Odysseus" (Email Removed) napisal w wiadomosci
[nq:2]Is there a notion of a "left/right semi-profile" in English? ... Maybe this is expressed in some other way in English?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know what criminologists call them, but such an image might be described as a left or right "oblique" view, or perhaps a "three-quarters" view.[/nq]
Thanks a lot!
Kamil
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