Class Portrait Assignment

I am looking for some help to picking two photos for Class.

I have reduced the number of photos down to 15, and need to bring it down to 2

for Wednesday. Which of the photos in this folder should I use?

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<a href="http://www.photo.net/photodb/presentation.tcl?

presentation_id=358888">Gallary</a>.

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Thank you for the help.

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Mike

I would have thought that editing was part of your assignment as well.

the only help I'll give you are the baby pictures are cute but not class material (snapshots and great moments). The rest you should know which are class worthy are not. Pretend you are going to someone elses portfolio and rate them a number each of them.

 

Are they being printed?

 

Also what is the assignment.

 

I agree this is YOUR job to pick them.

The assignment is environment portraits (nonstudio).

I may print them later on, but for the class, it will on screen for the instructor, and in the projector for the class.

 

Mark: The only edited photo in the group, is the one b&w, which is only cropped, and greyscaled. The rest are 100% original.

 

Mike

Very simple. Be critical, very critical of your own work. The baby pictures while cute are family album material. Certainly not worth even worth considering for a grade in a class.

 

The portrait session of the girl.... she's gorgeous, and these are quite well done. Again, be critical of your own work. Pretend it's someone elses photos you are looking at.

 

Consider composition, lighting, posing, etc..... Then listen to you classmates and your professor during the critique and absorb it all.... That's what makes you get better and better......

Micki: The baby pics where not suppose to be added. I guess that is what happens when I do not double check the photos that are added.

 

Mike

ahh... I didn't think so ;)

 

LOL ~

 

at least now you made me giggle

 

I almost said give them the baby pictures for fun. :)

You haven't done your research on environmental portraits. Check out Arnold Newman's portraits, he basically created the genre. Also a side note Gregory Heisler was Newman's assistant after leaving RIT.An eviromental portrait is not just taking someone outside of the studio. It's shooting a pianist at the piano, an artist over canvas, a sculptur over clay, a lawyer in the courtroom, a stripper on the pole, a mechanic under the car, a fisherman in the creek. The "environment" gives you a substantial amount of information about the subject. Not to be overly critical, your photos don't do that. I know nothing about the pretty woman in you photos. I actually think the baby shots are more of an environmental portrait than those of the woman.

I'm not shy Mike. Number eight and then number one. After you show them and the assignment is over..ask the teacher to do the same thing your asking here. I like the stripes with the background. I might crop number one to a square format.

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Anthony, your so sweet. Now come to my house and do my kids Algebra ;)

 

Make me a pot of coffee too. YUM YUM

 

Yes, crop! I will give you that. Sorry I'm stubborn.

<i>The only edited photo in the group, is the one b&w, which is only cropped, and greyscaled. The rest are 100% original.</i>

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By "editing", I mean the process of selecting the keepers and throwing away the rejects. I don't mean post-processing.

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Editing is an important, valuable, and difficult skill, well worth mastering.

Mike, you have a couple of shots that can become quite good as environmental portraits - one is girl with camera (http://www.photo.net/photo/6479920) and another is girl on bike (http://www.photo.net/photo/4209037). I think you can crop both to give pretty decent portraits.