face photograph vs face image

Both 'face photograph' and 'face image' are correct phrases, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'Face photograph' specifically refers to a picture taken with a camera, while 'face image' is a more general term that can include photographs, drawings, or digital representations of a face.

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face photograph

This phrase is correct and commonly used to refer to a picture of a face taken with a camera.

Use 'face photograph' when you want to specifically refer to a picture of a face that has been captured with a camera.

Examples:

She showed me a beautiful face photograph of her grandmother.
The magazine cover featured a stunning face photograph of the model.

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Faces in photographs, luggage, half-eaten meals... rings...
She's got recording instruments and a movie camera to photograph your faces while you're unconscious.
But a photograph needs a face.
Photographs of babies with something on their faces like a membrane or...
I have to photograph one beautiful face...
You know I tore that photograph and put the pieces on your face.
You know, studies have shown that people who spend too much time online lose the ability to identify simple emotions expressed in photographs of human faces.
But gaze upon its face, even in a photograph, and your very life force will be sucked out, leaving you a flaccid husk.
I wish we had a photograph of all our faces when you walked in.
I mean, you should've seen your mother's face when I pulled out that photograph.
He said you could see criminal faces, judging them just on the photographs that were showed.
This is a photograph of Adi, a Nigerian bank manager who had his face shot off in an armed robbery.
The story begins in 1996 when a wildlife photographer took this photograph here of a Tasmanian devil with a large tumor on its face.
Because in a photograph you can examine a lion's whiskers without the fear of him ripping your face off.
This is a face-scanning sphere, with 156 white LEDs all around that allow us to photograph her in a series of very controlled illumination conditions.
In the annual report there are 21 photographs of the Ombudsman, and in most of them he has a gentle expression on his face.
So the intruder had to take the photographs out of the frames, obliterate the faces and then reassemble them.
So I had a colour photograph made of Vera Miles and sent instructions to the Rome office to do this painting exactly as the photograph was except to put an aristocratic face on the woman.
He allowed me to photograph him for quite a long time, and he even turned his face toward the light, as if he wanted me to see him better.
In that photograph, Arnold is wearin' bell-bottoms and a flowered shirt... his hair in braids, with red peace symbols... splashed across his face like war paint.

Alternatives:

portrait
headshot
facial snapshot
close-up photo of a face
photograph of a person's face

face image

This phrase is correct and more general, as it can refer to various representations of a face, including photographs, drawings, or digital images.

Use 'face image' when you want to refer to any visual representation of a face, regardless of whether it is a photograph, drawing, or digital rendering.