Welcome everyone to TEAM NIKON turf, who we got in this?
OH MAN!! there are so many brilliant portrait photographers on this site,, I mean WOW! we have 4 of them in team Nikon... oooops did I say 4? errrrm well yes Not including me its errm 1... 2 ... 3 and yeh 4
Ok, I'm in and I never took a studio-like portrait before so I don't expect it to even score average, but who cares. It was fun to do and that's what counts.
To me, from the examples I have seen, it seems that portraits cannot be full body. The emphasis seems to be the face for the most part.
Where are those professional portrait photograpehers out there???
kiwiness? nasti? cindi? hello?
Sonifo's "Dainty Gem" took blue in the first color portrait challenge and that was full body. I'm guessing if it looks great it'll probably do well.
Standard portraits are either 'headshot' (which usually includes shoulders), '2/3 body' or 'full body'. But I'm guessing with DPC voters, closer shots may score better -- I could be wrong though as Yanko stated.
To me, from the examples I have seen, it seems that portraits cannot be full body. The emphasis seems to be the face for the most part.
Where are those professional portrait photograpehers out there???
kiwiness? nasti? cindi? hello?
Sonifo's "Dainty Gem" took blue in the first color portrait challenge and that was full body. I'm guessing if it looks great it'll probably do well.
Standard portraits are either 'headshot' (which usually includes shoulders), '2/3 body' or 'full body'. But I'm guessing with DPC voters, closer shots may score better -- I could be wrong though as Yanko stated.
BTW, I think yanko is mislead to think that Soni's image was in the first color portrait. WHile in fact it was a Color Portrait challenge, this is the first Color Studio Portrait challenge.
I believe a portrait is what the photographer believes the composition consists of. Here are several examples of our team portrait photographer Dave Matson, He does really nice work getting variety out of the thousands of girls photographed each season
So in this example a portraitcan contain head and toes and more than one person
I'm glad you're reavching beyond the DPC friendly images Peter ;) Good for us neophyte portrait photographers too BTW :P
Haha I didnt do it for anybody else then myself.
To teach myself a lesson and see the fun again in DPC.
I lucked out a few times and now I worry about my avg score going down...
So now I made a decision: Have fun, stop worrying...
You see what I mean after the challenge, look me up, Ill be somewhere on page 9 or 10 ;)
Oh, and I've narrowed my choices down to 7 - so hard to choooooose!!!
Glad to hear I wasn't the only one. I've made my decision a couple of minutes ago after hesitating 2 days, lol. And still I'm not satisfied about my submission.
Im in ... ROLL-OVER.. after my unfortunate DQ in toys Nikon slipped 0.5 points in the league so Im fired up for this one now I went out on a limb with it and tried my upmost best to make back the points i cost the team Sorry guys truely I am but I have a great shot in the portraits and my old/new shots are simply brilliant.. I even surprised myself..
No expensive studio lighting and no money to pay models to pose under artificial light. I'll sit this challenge out. It's okay... not every challenge can be inclusive of all members.
