Well for awhile I tried taking photos of people, either random I saw on the streets or friends and after awhile I just gave up because I am too much of a coward and too much of a newbie to take any really good portraits. Here are some of the better ones I've taken. Some were meant to be serious portraits while others are just snapshots.

If you have any suggestions how I could have done better or any kind of criticism just post them in here, dont be shy I wont get upset or anything

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This post was edited by Futurama on Nov 10 2008 11:42pm

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This post was edited by Futurama on Nov 11 2008 12:03am

lol I posted one photo twice earlier by mistake but I corrected it hope nobody noticed

First one = best (by far)
Second one - meh
Third one - ok
Fourth one - ok
Fifth one - bad

In the fifth picture, that woman is way too close up front, and it seems like she was annoyed with you taking a picture of her up so close, like right in her face lol

Other pics, I like looking at different cultures. Like in the first picture, there's that street sign that I dunno what means lol. We don't have signs like that in the U.S. How do you make everything black & white and leave these two people colored? I'd like to learn how to do that with photoshop.

nature and ppl... 2 things wht are so diff... You cannot take pic 2 times in same place as it will be same.

Great pics! I like those!

haha thanks for the comments! well as I said some of them were simply just snapshots but I know skills in taking portrait photos are very limited



I dont fully understand what you just said. do you mean that I shouldnt have taken portraits of people out in the nature?

This post was edited by Futurama on Nov 11 2008 10:46am

haha Im naab at english... I try to correct.

nature and ppl are so different. No1 cant take again pic like have made.. = nature/ppl are unique in all formats and cam views

do you mean there are significant differences in techniques when taking nature and people photos? well I am aware of that lol and I know I shouldve have used a much wider aperture in some of those pics so there wouldnt be so much distracting background details. well I am still learning and hopefully I will be able to take some good portraits in the future

mmh... we wont get same line... wht eva forget it Great pics again ;D

lol ok whatever thanks anyway