Thread 4457809

You're not a real photographer unless you shoot people.

Portraiture is the purest and most artistic form of photography bar none. Through portraiture you develop and exhibit the bare minimum of skill needed to engage artistically with other genres and employ some directorial talent to truly create the images you want, not just the ones you stumble into. If you never engage in portraiture you will never, ever develop anything resembling talent. The portrait is the fundamental skill, the pure photography. It is the deceptively simple dish that must be made perfectly, the one that amateurs fail at despite being decent at more complex meals, that you must master if you are ever to truly master anything else.

This fact is not up for debate. Even Ansel Adams did decent portraiture.
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ansel-adams-portrait-of-brassai-yosemite-california

>posting facebook lizards in the year 2025
cringe

>>4457809 (OP)
post some of your portraits :)

Sent :)

still waiting on your wonderful, totally competent portraits.

>>4457809 (OP)
Based

Also talking to strangers and ask them to stand for a photo is the hardest thing in photography. Any pussy can photos of mountains and shit. Real deal is to take photos for the front or doing documentary style where you ask for the permission of the stranger.

If you can't do this then I am sorry you'll never be a good photographer.

>>4457863
>>4457868
Post 1 trillion more photos of your dogs and cats, fucking pussies.

- Kodak Pro Image 100
- Super-Takumar 50mm f1.4
- No post processing

Was fun. Tagged along a friend who's pro.

>>4457878
wow a proposal shoot in casual street wear clothing?
you are not a good director, sir.

>>4457878
Nice, thank you for posting

>>4457879
This was the casual part. They were dressed up earlier.

>>4457877
>>4457868

>>4457881
Nice

>>4457878
>>4457881
Kinda baffling that people still prefer lazy ass causal clothing when they look really good in formal clothing.

>>4457809 (OP)
>implying

>>4457809 (OP)

Absolutely fucking BASED

Half of my work at Speedweek this year was people interacting with cars.

OP you only missed one small detail, shoot people but not the backs of their heads like all the other /p/hotismos here. No one cares about the backs of people's heads unless it's POV porn hitting from behind.

>>4457957
>Half of my work at Speedweek this year was people interacting with cars.
Pussy move. On these events people expect that kind of shit for social media.

Go do this in some forgotten village near the border or in mundane everyday setting in your town. Then you will be justified in bragging about this shit.

>OP you only missed one small detail, shoot people but not the backs of their heads like all the other /p/hotismos here. No one cares about the backs of people's heads unless it's POV porn hitting from behind.
Based

>>4457816

They're called Pepes and they're not from Facebook.

>>4458937
Really? You pronounce it like memes, right?

>>4458940
>Pronounced MAY-mays

This is a portrait thread now

portrait thread you say?

this one got cooked

>>4459389
>when you're shooting street and an atom bomb goes off

>>4457877
>Post 1 trillion more photos of your dogs and cats, fucking pussies.
This is a blue board, fucking pussies or posting fucking pussies is against the rules, newfag.

>>4459456
Did they?

>>4459389
Those prices, holy shit.

>>4457816
...Does...the lack of a nose, elevated eyes, and short neck not make you guess frog? LOL I guess it makes sense someone wouldn't.
But trying to get your portraits really good does sound like a good stepping-stone to knowing how to optimize in visual art.
https://strawpoll.com/7MZ0kJ00Kgo

>>4459497
>>4459499
portraits?