Portraits from Chinatown

[macrolandscape]

There's a difference between a portrait shot and a candid. You took candids.

then why dun u tell me exactly what you think portraits is? and why this doesnt fit into portraits?

 

[macrolandscape]

well rashkae, ive done some reading about it and feel even more certain my pics shud be placed in this category.

there are some thing you say sometimes that are worth heeding. but this, well, i find rather narrow minded. if u choose to insist these pictures belong to streets and candids, ill respect your opinions but will not agree.

Thanks for taking interest at the pictures still.

 

[Rashkae]

well rashkae, ive done some reading about it and feel even more certain my pics shud be placed in this category.

there are some thing you say sometimes that are worth heeding. but this, well, i find rather narrow minded. if u choose to insist these pictures belong to streets and candids, ill respect your opinions but will not agree.

Thanks for taking interest at the pictures still.

You took pictures of people as they were unaware of it, catching them off-guard and at candid moments. I don't know what "reading" you did, but clearly it was incorrect.

Or, according to wiki:
A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer.


And:
Candid photography is photography that focuses on spontaneity rather than technique, on the immersion of a camera within events rather than focusing on setting up a staged situation or on preparing a lengthy camera setup.

Candid photography is best described as un-posed and unplanned, immediate and unobtrusive. This is in contrast to classic photography, which includes aspects such as carefully staged portrait photography, landscape photography or object photography. Candid photography catches moments of life from immersion in it.

Candid photography is opposite to the stalking involved in animal photography, sports photography or photographic journalistic intrusion, which all have a focus on getting distant objects photographed, e.g. by using telephoto lenses. Candid photography's setup includes a photographer who is there with the "subjects" to be photographed, close, and not hidden. People photographed on candid shots either ignore or accept the close presence of the photographer's camera without posing.

The events documented are often private, they involve people in close relation to something they do, or they involve people's relation to each other. Candids are the kinds of pictures taken at children's birthday parties and on Christmas morning, opening the presents; the pictures a wedding photographer takes at the reception, of people dancing, eating, and socializing with other guests.



By that, your pictures are Candids.

 

[macrolandscape]

to me, its candid portraiture. which still is portraits.

 

[jOhO]

unfortunately, whether this belongs in portraits sub-forum or candids sub-forum or not, it has become a discussion about anything but the images.

TS please start a new thread should u see the need to.

tip for users: next time you see something that seems wrong, please report it instead of talking on the thread.