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People & Portraits Exposed #2The first article in the series went well - and hopefully cleared up some definition confusion for a lot of people. You can always ask me, `IsacGoulart or ^3wyl if you're unsure if your work is in the right place. Drop a comment on this article and we'll be happy to help you. Over the coming weeks, we will work on definitions and include them in the article to help. Anyway, on with the features! Enjoy.
Classic Portraits


Emotive Portraits


Expressive Portraits


Infants & Children
Mommy Said NO So I'm Leaving by =BriPhotography2013
Self Portraits
Assassin by *MonsterBrandshort story about Nothing by ~zenibyfajnie
Sometimes I feel like a freak. by *LucyJOrcharddanse macabre by ~M0THart
Spontaneous Portraits
Photography Weekly: Edition Twenty EightPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”
  
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This week I spied an awesome topic in *Fuzzypiggy's journal and knew instantly that it was what I would talk about for edition twenty eight. "Underground train system bosses are set to ban all photos under new proposals that have angered photographers.." You can read the full article for yourself here but I would love to get some discussion going amongst us all as to whether or not the proposed ban would effect you. I'm personally quite pleased that the latest articles report a U-turn in the proposals so it doesn't look
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Darkroom Exposed: AmbrotypesDarkroom Exposed is a series of articles highlighting talented deviants, noteworthy art and helpful information all about the Photography > Darkroom gallery on dA.
This issue features ambrotypes, which are positive images created on a sheet of glass using the wet-plate collodion process. They are also known as collodion positives. You can find out more about ambrotypes here.





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007007 by ~mikm-STOCK
negatives stock 1 by ~hatestock
Polaroids and Negatives by ~Absinthyium-stock
People & Portraits Exposed #5 Getting your Emotive on!
It's often quite difficult to define emotion in an image. However the Emotive People & Portraits Gallery is all about that. Whether or not you have captured emotion accidentally or on purpose - your work could have a place within the gallery.
 




Emotive puts a lot of thought and emphasis on the emotion captured in a shot which is quite obvious given the name. However it's not all about being able to see a face with extra focus on eyes, mouth and expression. Sometimes you can capture emotively without that focus.



So to create your emotive shots, your intention must be to delve into your subjects very soul and pull out the emotion through their posture, their expressions and their stance and surroundings to convey what is usually hidden away carefully.
People + Portraits Exposed #11Don't forget the Seasonal Portraiture Contest!  Also head over to ~PeopleAndPortraits if you haven't already and join our Portraiture Hub! The idea of this series of articles is to first and foremost promote the true definitions of the People & Portrait Photography Galleries - and secondly expose some of the upcoming latest works in the gallery. If you'd like to be considered then do send me a note. But your work must be recent!
 
Emotive...

By *miobi
Self Portraits...

By ~SuzyTheButcher
Classic...

By *DianaNohelova
Expressive...

By ~vampire-zombie
Infants &
People & Portraits Exposed #3This week we're focusing on Spontaneous Portraits. The definition behind such portraiture is quite simple. It involves shots that are captured on the spur of the moment. They're not planned, they aren't set up, there could be things obscuring the models face, and there's often no time for makeup and lighting! But it's not simply the back of someone's head, or a funny face being pulled. Your work must also be artful in the sense that, it's clever, it stands out - and it's care free!







Previous Articles
Edition One explored the People and Portrait Galleries
Edition Two followed on w
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People and Portraits Exposed #4 When to use the Miscellaneous People & Portraits Gallery
This week we've put together an article that explores when to use the miscellaneous category within the People & Portraits Gallery . It's a tricky topic, but one that can quite easily be defined in many ways. Here we've got some examples that will hopefully help you understand what does fit in the miscellaneous portraiture gallery.

 
This piece by `IsacGoulart is a classic example of when it might be correct to use the miscellaneous category. This work could quite easily fit into a sky scape gallery or indeed water scapes within Animals, Plants and Nature. However in this case, the person in the shot is important and it's what makes this portraiture as well as anything else. But when looking at the sub-categories within the People & Portraits Gallery, there isn't really anything that it completely fits with.
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A photograph is memory in the raw. - Carrie Latet

I recently spent some time (okay maybe hours!) exploring a photographic exhibition on the Isle of Wight - England. I had known that the exhibition existed for some years, but had never really ventured over there. It was held in the home and studio of a celebrated Victorian Photography - Julia Margaret Cameron. However it did include a nice variety of works - photographs from Dorothy Bohm who put together the book A world observed and a collection of shots taken at the famed 1970s Isle of Wight Pop Festival. It included images of Jimi Hendrix who performed at the festival just three weeks before his death. The images collated and exhibited were fascinating. But what really struck me was how far we had come in terms of camera equipment.

This was donated to the Margaret Cameron Trust by Graham Ovenden and was subsequent
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People & Portraits Exposed #1

Journal Entry: Wed Jun 20, 2012, 7:57 AM

Sometimes it's difficult to know where best to place your People & Portraiture Photography. Along with my fellow general photography CVs I've started to look into what defines the various People & Portraiture Galleries on deviantART - and we've noticed a real inconsistency with what photographers classify as emotive/spontaneous/self portraits and so on. Hopefully this weekly series of articles will help to change that, and challenge those of us who are unsure - to think outside the box when categorizing our work.

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The first edition of a brand new series of articles featuring work from across the People & Portrait Photography galleries. Please fav the article if you enjoyed it -and drop a comment if you have any feedback or questions! :heart:
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^Kaz-D Jun 22, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Uh huh, I agree :nod:
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`anmari Jun 29, 2012
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*DiamonEyes Jun 20, 2012
I 100% agree. In fact I'm having a very hard time seeing a stylistic difference between ALL of these images with the exception of the the actual subject. :shrug:
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`anmari Jun 20, 2012
Hmm, I wouldn't go that far, but I do understand your concern. Maybe the new Gallery Descriptions will help clear that up! :)
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*DiamonEyes Jun 20, 2012
That might be a good idea. :nod: thank you.:D
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*PootPoot Jun 20, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Especially love the kid portraits, these are all lovely :D
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^Kaz-D Jun 22, 2012  Hobbyist Photographer
Thanks :D Yes me too!
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`JamminJo Jun 20, 2012   Photographer
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