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Shooting a Photograph of Someone Vs. Taking Someone's Portrait
There’s a difference between merely taking a photo of someone and making a great portrait. The first shows a person, the second tells something about a person. This article contains one hundred photos of the latter.
We recommend clicking show all photos, letting them load, opening the song Photographs by James Murphy in a new tab and scrolling through all photos.
How did we make this selection? We pulled out all photos containing phrases like great portrait, nice portrait and similar in the comments, went through them and handpicked one hundred. Let us know what you think of these photos, tell us some stories about your experience of taking portraits of friends and strangers and link them in the comments.
goes to show how some parts of a person is captured on film. And the amazing light display on film.And how some kind of connection between subject and clicker.
@maxpinckers interesting point! the description above is just my take on this subject. to me the relationship between photographer and photographed is not that important (because half the time how should i find out just by looking at the photo), i care more about if i think the photo itself tells me something about the person. but as said: this is just my opinion. how do others feel about this?
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Fine art photographer James Katsipis uses LomoChorome Turquoise 120 film to bring a whole new perspective to the landscapes of Montauk, depicting an alien-like parallel universe of the popular New York spot.
Film-enthusiast Dana T. has enamored us with her 110 photography for quite some time now, so it is no surprise that she also impressed us with her results from the Lomomatic 110. Today she has returned to the magazine to share some thoughts on this brand new pocket camera!
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