"A portrait is nothing without eyes!" The images refute that particular statement. A portrait is not a simple depiction of eyes and photographs are not simple recordings of light rays onto cellulose. The sum total of a portrait is that it tells you something about the person in the photograph. Take a real close look at the last picture I posted and tell me it tells you about that person. A photograph of a person with eyes and no emotion is a headshot and a bad one at that. (this is NOT referring to your image just a general statement)(posted 8614 days ago)Portraits are about people (duh), emotions, passions, something other than a transient recording of "hey you look here". Portratists should be pasionate people sharing their view and interest in other human beings not the equivalent of a computer pushing the shutter whenever anything is in focus and properly metered. I can show you a thousand silly photographs that claim to be portraits which are nothing more than trivial recordings of reflected light onto 5 cent cellulose.
If I unintentionally intruded onto your thread and or direction you wanted your thread to go, I will start another new one later on.
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