Steemit Portrait Photography Contest Week 49 - Judge's review
Here is the review of weekly #portraitcontest by @jasonrussell
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Since it looks like I'm becoming more or less regular judge for this contest, thought that would be good idea to provide just short reviews for a winning entries, since obviously many people would be asking why this or not that and so on...
So let's start and try to make this on a regular basis
Just to begin, hopefully everybody understand that every judging is quite a subjective thing. A lot depends on the judge and his own tastes and visions... That's unavoidable and some of you just have to live this this fact, though I'm always trying to be as much objective as possible anyway
So, back to the the theme of the last week, which was "Black and White Portraits" was obvious to be expected to receive quite a lot of various entries. And that really happened. We had a lot of entries and was quite hard to chose the winners this time.
In such situation on the first place comes so called "WOW factor". Means while browsing multiply images the ones which just catching your eye (like "WOW, that's something special") are coming to the shortlist for further decision which place to be awarded. And that was exactly the case this time - many many rather good images and some WOWs among them...
Let's go one by one then
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1st place by @deadcountry
Simply something really unusual and true piece of art. The face in motion, interesting composition with few levels and nice contrast of bright and dark spaces in one frame. Very well deserved
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2nd place by @twodorks
Eyes are the mirror of the soul. Eyes contact always is very important in portrait photography (not all the time necessary, but in many cases just hits the point). Moreover, the eyes of the child normally are much more emotional as of adult person. So here we have very nice black and white conversion with strong and emotional eye contact. Congrats!
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3rd place by @psi.acastillo
Ahh, at first sight just a glamour portrait, but so much emotion provided by lips and fingers placement. Pure lust :) Couldn't resist...
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HM by @himalayanwomb
Again child and here you can really see that most probably her life is not so easy and maybe quite far from normal civilization. All is written on her face... Very nice b&w conversion as well leading us to direct eyes contact. Pretty stunning
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HM by @whimsical-magic
This author has own really unique style for a portraits and post-processing. The portrait really looks more like an art. Again great eye contact and b&w post-processing
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HM by @maquemali
True emotion and tears of the child. At once brings much more attention to the portrait. Those eyes just speaks... Awesome!
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HM by @bil.prag
Very nice portrait in low-key. Just love how shadows are wrapping the model. And very nice emotion caught. Well done!
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CONTEST OFFICIALLY SPONSORED BY: @leotrap, @crimsonclad and @ngc
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Oh really loved to read this review ~ always very interesting to peek a little bit ˋbehind the curtain´ / the motivation for just any action :)
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Thanks to everyone for the kind words. It can be daunting starting out here and these little things help keep the drive alive. I encourage anyone reading this, especially newcomers, to enter the numerous contests going on here. It is a great way to get your work out and make yourself known to the community. And the extra Steem isn't bad either!
Yeah, that's exactly how things worked for me from the beginning :)
Thank you for the honest reviews @axeman this is actually a good idea to atleast let us know how you selected the winners.. thanks again!!!! We are going to try harder for the next theme!!!
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Thank you @axeman!!.. as always, i love your selection and the part where you explain why... that i love the most.. somehow it will give us insights in our future post..
Thanks for including me! 🐷
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thanks for the comment, appreciate it
Feel the light! :)
Such a creative portrait from @deadcountry, I love it. My second favorite is @bil.prag 's photo. Congrats to all the winners.
thanks
paaa hermoso!
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Excelente elección ,felicitaciones a los ganadores,saludos
This is great! Thanks for giving some insight into your picks!!
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