OK, fair enough. Call me dense but i needed the words to make the connection. I think these would range into the description of "environmental portraits" where the subject's surroundings or posessions (or lack of) would do the talking. There are totally valid all though it still viscerally bothers me when the eyes are in shadow. Maybe that's just a personal thing...(posted 8620 days ago)I stand up and applaud your differentiating between a portrait and a headshot- thats exactly what I was talking about up there when i said "Ok there are eyes but what's in them?" This eyes rule has been broken with great success many times- I think of Weston's "Galvan Shooting" or Avedon's Marian Anderson... (think I got these right) If you think you should never begin a sentence with "but" you'll never be a great writer. But those back-of-the-head hair-in-the-face shadowed-out blurry-eyed "portraits" still drive me nuts-
Thanks for your comments- see you in the new thread-