hey, thats surprisingly really nice!

not bad not bad, u able to capture the feeling well.... it felt like we were there caught up in the moments

btw uraki, how did u travel to Shirakawa-go? whats the expenses? its so beautiful!

thanks a lot... heard bout this village few time... need big planning, drop by several places on the way... any recommendation of sight seeing along the way?

ok, i will put them down to my travel list. thanks yea~

I think whole of japan is highlight for taiwan/honkong couple. the last time i went to kyoto, full of couple from hongkong and taiwan getting their wedding photo taken...

i know i know! A700

Nikon 4500 remind me of the early camera i used... kyocera SL300R hahaha good old days, mentioning good old days...

a photo that is long lasting no matter how many times you keep staring at it (gf pic lain kira)

on personal level, a good portrait also means that you liked how the image is made (composition, color, subject, etc)

as for the afghan girl, why that particular photo? there are millions of girls in afghan, and thousand of photographers there. why that photo? is it because it was the Last Kodakchrome Roll? or because its Steve McCurry work? (all steve portrait looks the same style, sharp piecing eye into the camera)... or because he picked the photo for Geo Nat and Geo Nat uses it as cover and it gotten international attention because its not everyday you get to see photo like this(during 1985?)...... or its just as simple as (my take on the pic when i first saw it. its a good stunning photo,) the girl is pretty in contrast of the dirty broken clothes, the green eye is special, blended well with the BG, and subject is framed with the red clothes. the minimalist of 2 tone, green and red and they paired pretty well. depend on you see it. i myself liked it, partly is also that is steve signature style too that i liked

is it? didnt realized that...

btw, now u said like this, it makes me wonder how to put the word "portrait"... do you think portrait as we ask some girls out and snap snap Taiwanese cute girl style, or snap snap Emma Jones sexy bra and panties photo, or... joe mcnally commercial portraits, or steve's jornalism portraits?

portrait can be in many form and style.

there is two new unit adapter in my local sony center. one was opened and used by me for 2 hours and put back. its did not meet my min requirement. if money not an issue, go straight for 10-18, its really a lot sharper and can fully use nex6 phase detect feature.

This post has been edited by edpaul: Jul 18 2014, 12:02 AM

wahhhh this very hard to answer la... its something you learn along the way...

for those famous famous photo, its really hard to point out WHY they are good...

basically there is several ways how a photo can be famous....

Some are taken by someone famous, he, has wider exposure to larger circle of people, and spreading starts...

Some are backed by big marketing company that can give better exposure to your work.

Some, are because the photo itself are so good, that it speaks for itself and later make the photographer famous.

and many other ways. so, im sorry i cant really help you out coz i dont know the answer directly to the question.


but if you wan to learn how to improve your own portraits, yea there are many advise online, forum discussion, magazines, books, online albums(flickr, deviant art, etc)... instead of all about portrait, i would suggest "in the eye of the photographer" (or something) by micheal freeman (i think).... i like the way how he explain the composition... the way he see the 'feng sui' or the 'flow' and show in the book easily understand.

faints~

it does helps to improve the impact of a photo....

is it important? depend on your original photo need fixing or not, need boosting or not. most new DLSR today has feature to boost contrast and saturation, some with build in HDR mode etc... some straight out jpeg can be stunning nice too~

most professional photo, geo nat, fashion, sport(commercially), artist all went through strict post processing. one of my friend in my town does PP for Fashion/Portrait Photographers... each edited photo are charged at USD40-50. (which is cheap in the market) he got a lot customer from australia and europe... sorry i went a little off topic.

i must admit, it does help, and it considered creating lies....

there are two type of postprocessing.
i) Darkroom processing (for negative) and Lightroom processong (For positive) are the same thing just diff sources. they allows your to adjust behavior within the film(negative) digital raw(positive) limit.

so Adobe Lightroom or Raw editor programs are consider acceptable post-processing for those strict no editing contest entries. stuff like, exposure, contrast, saturation, vignetting, lens barrel/pincushion correction, CA correction, curve, black and white, hue, clarity(this function is still in debate)

ii) manipulating Post processing, aka Photoshopped. is where you remove stuff from photo, or add stuff to photo. eg, adding flocks of birds into the river... is totally illegal in contest entries (unless it states accepts photoshop or no editing limit).....

so, which category of post processing you refering? myself also dizzy liao since u ask such deep question...

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This post has been edited by edpaul: Jul 18 2014, 05:05 PM