The subject of this work is a portrait photos, which are showing emotions. Besides it's talking about photography, which is closely related to graphic design, it's also touching on the psychology of man. In the practical part of this work, portraits of six basic emotions will be displayed. Each emotion will contain three images of each other, aligned with the emotion gradient, from the initial one, which also shows the least expressed emotion, to the final one, showing the most expressive or most intense emotion. In the written part of this work will be described the approach to the model that enabled the given emotion and the conditions during the shooting. Apart from the process of obtaining a photo, it is extremely important to postproduction or photo-processing. It will be stated which programs were used in the proces of postproduction and what was obtained in which processing program. Also, it is very important to have access to photography, but it also depends on the author and the motive he deals with. For this reason, the description of access to the photographs will relate exclusively to the motive that is the subject of this work.