Portraiture - You & Your Camera

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a clever image nicely processed there is a dark mood generated by the heavy contrast, very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........

A lovely image with great content, b/w tones, contrasts and interest, wonderful composition and storytelling, cleverly done, nicely showing the platform at tower bridge but not a version I have seen before, hard to get right but praise the efforts, very well done..........

Thank you for the description, this image fills the brief perfectly and adds more to the story, nice composition and lighting, only b/w would work for this. Nice use of contrasts and light/dark. The image in the monitor certainly stands out and the whole image is well constructed and thought out, well done.......

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a lovely image with great content and supreme DoF, wonderful composition and storytelling, the toned whites work very well and the almost 'dull' colours of the clothing stand out effectively, very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........

A second similar image, this image fills the brief perfectly and adds more to the story, great composition and lighting, great storytelling and nice use of DoF. The image in the monitor is a clever way to answer the brief and the whole image is well constructed and thought out, even closer cropping of the right side may work, well done.......

What stood out for me with this is the background not the portrait, very clever composition and use of wide angle. The image isn't the sharpest but there is so much interest and almost abstract feel to the whole, well done.........

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a visually effective and nicely achieved image with great symetry and use of fisheye in an envronment most of us have attempted, not easy to achieve such composition iand clarity in such a confined space, you wre luck with the construction of the interior, very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........

Certainly stands out, lovely composition and cleverly done, I'm sure many have taken this image but this one works well and we can clearly see the brief answered. Lovely colours and clarity with lots of interest, well thought out composition......

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a nice image with a clever concept, great composition and storytelling in the use of the fisheye effect and despite a mundane environment still full of interest, good use of b/w rather than colour thar may not have been as effective, very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........

These are not always easy to get right, this one works well with the postwork, has a 'wet plate' feel with the 'dust' and grain, the soft edges and the sepia make this a bit more than ordinary, (I have the same software), possibly a bit heavy with the grain, the composition is good and the eye wandera alover......

Yes, there were lots and lots of reflected glasses images but this one is the best I've seen in a long while, never actually seen one with a group of faces in, very well done and conceived. Clever composition and close cropping works very well, great in b/w superb clarity and contrasts, well done.......

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a lovely image with great content and b/w tones, wonderful composition almost central to the pupil, great sharpness in the whole of the eye and superb clarity and 'shine' in the reflection, hard to get right but this is a supreme example, very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a lovely image with great content and moody tones, wonderful composition and storytelling, there is an aura of almost 'horror film', fantastic use of scenery and 'red', very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........

Lovely image, great composition and story, outstanding in its simplicity, but anyone who tries to recreate this will no doubt fail....... There is an awesome mood to the image and it all works on so many levels - the woman, the mirrors, the reflections, the basic nature of the room, the clever use of the retro camera, the layers of clarity/blur. No offence but a man in the image would not work as well...... Brilliant, well done.........

So very close to being in the Top 10 but there were so many awesome images but this image certainly deserves comment, a nice image with great use of softness, grain and b/w grey tones, wonderful composition and storytelling, nice use of negative space but the 'scratch' is distracting as is the bottom left corner where cropping needs a bit more. Very well done and best of luck in the next contest..........