Chien Yung-pin points out that the style adopted in the early period of Taiwan portrait prints essentially followed from the structure of painted portraits, without much thought put into the backgrounds. The most you could get was a dour, dignified looking subject sitting stiffly in a chair, with perhaps a few flower arrangements in the background.
台灣早期寫真師拍照的風格，也大致延續畫像時代的構圖：不甚講究背景的變化﹘ ﹘頂多是一張太師椅上端坐著道貌岸然的人物，後面放置簡單的花草盆景。