Post your Portrait shots!

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RON_RIP

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Lawrence said:
I shall most definitely let her know she is world famous on the nikonites portraits thread. :)

Thanks for the compliment mate. i do enjoy taking portraits and still get a thrill out of seeing one that just appeals to me. In a way I think portraits are very personal to the photographer and the subject because there are some that I simply love of the people I have only known for a short while yet find those same photos don't appeal quite as much to the subject (while others do) as they see themselves differently.

But here is something I learned.
If you take a photo of the famous Mona Lisa and flip it horizontally, so that her left side becomes her right, it looks all wrong. So looking at a portrait of oneself looks all wrong because it isn't what we see in the mirror everyday. And everybody's face has a lower side to it. Flip that around and the slight difference is now double accentuated.

That's the end of the lesson for today! :)
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As long as there is not going to be a quiz. Just hope now she does not raise her modeling fee now that she is famous.
 
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Lawrence

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Probably not the right forum for this but I am sure [MENTION=6277]Don Kuykendall[/MENTION] will let me know if wrong.

Its just that it is the same young lass as above ...

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In this one I posed her to accentuate her figure
 
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Lawrence

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Don Kuykendall said:
I still think this is a portrait. Although I had rather have seen a full body shot. Don't cut off the legs.
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[MENTION=6277]Don Kuykendall[/MENTION] an interesting discussion could follow.

The lady I am learning from (Sue Bryce) who is one of the top glamour photographers around uses 5 'crops'.

1. Nipple line - head cropped just above hairline
2. Waist line - head cropped slightly higher but with no 'space' above head
3. Hip line - head crop showing a bit of space above head
4 Mid-thigh line (seen in this photo) - head cropped with more space
5 Knee line - head cropped with a lot of sapce.

All five poses are classic Front Cover poses.

So far I like her theory and it gives me something to think about and work on when shooting
 
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Don Kuykendall_RIP

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Lawrence said:
@Don Kuykendall an interesting discussion could follow.

The lady I am learning from (Sue Bryce) who is one of the top glamour photographers around uses 5 'crops'.

1. Nipple line - head cropped just above hairline
2. Waist line - head cropped slightly higher but with no 'space' above head
3. Hip line - head crop showing a bit of space above head
4 Mid-thigh line (seen in this photo) - head cropped with more space
5 Knee line - head cropped with a lot of sapce.

All five poses are classic Front Cover poses.

So far I like her theory and it gives me something to think about and work on when shooting
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You are correct, it is all a matter of taste. I like numbers 1, 2, and 3. 4 and 5 just bother me but that is a personal opinion.
 
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RON_RIP

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Any photo that gives us a true sense of a person is a portrait. If it tells us something significant about that person, that is more important than where the crop lines are.
 
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Lawrence

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RON said:
Any photo that gives us a true sense of a person is a portrait. If it tells us something significant about that person, that is more important than where the crop lines are.
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I agree.
This one had no crop and minor processing. Her hair is so red it looks unreal - maybe the top makes it look even brighter.

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RON_RIP

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I like this composition very much. Just as a minor critique, I would have preferred to have her head tilted to her left by about 10 degrees and I would have liked to had you one step up on a ladder or stool and I would have liked her lipstick to have matched her sweater, but then I am just a picky old man.


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