Environmental Portraits

Reply to Is this group dead?

nobody@flickr.com (Paul Kerton Photography) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 23:42:40 -0700

Whats the latest on this group?
just joined and submitted an image.

Is it live?

regards,
Paul

Reply to Is this group dead?

nobody@flickr.com (NoHoDamon) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:59:01 -0800

NoHoDamon posted a reply:

I think flickr, in general, is on a downward slide. None of the groups I participated in only a couple of years ago are active.

Is this group dead?

nobody@flickr.com (Matt Floreen) — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:52:09 -0800

Matt Floreen posted a new topic:

This group has a great collection of images, but it seems the latest ones were added a year ago. Is anyone still moderating submissions, or is this group dead?

Reply to Environmental Portrait -vs- a Snapshot

nobody@flickr.com (juliet.c_morgan) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:49:20 -0700

juliet.c_morgan posted a reply:

I can see where there is a need to discuss this topic; however, I do think that there is a happy median somewhere between the definition given by the first poster and from Stewbphoto. Here is my first example that I wanted to add to this group:

From my title you can infer that he is a preacher; however, he is not located inside his church, as Pablo might suggest is more desirable. But, I would argue that this absolutely an environmental portrait. The preacher in this photograph was sitting on his front porch but, I found him and photographed him when he was practicing the sermon he would later give in his church that morning. Like Stewbphoto suggests, I do think the portrait (which was actively requested and not just a candid street photograph) provides some insight into "...an enviro. portrait needs to have a context of the persons life that gives some kind of insight as to whom they are or what they do..."

Reply to Kitchens

nobody@flickr.com (NoHoDamon) — Mon, 16 May 2011 09:58:59 -0700

NoHoDamon posted a reply:

Your composition is wonderful and backgrounds informative without being intrusive. And you pulled some great, friendly smiles out of your subjects.

Some, like the one with the mixer, makes me imagine that it's their favorite thing in the kitchen.

Great stuff, Michael.

Reply to Kitchens

nobody@flickr.com (Michael Enio Reali) — Sun, 15 May 2011 18:25:14 -0700

Michael Enio Reali posted a reply:

Here's a set of kitchen portraits I shot for a cookbook. It was quite a challenge for all the reasons you mentioned, in addition to finding enough old ladies that would let me take their photo in their kitchen. (I shot over 40 women but only posted what I thought were the best ones.) Hope you like em. Let me know what you think.

Little Old Ladies

Reply to Environmental Portrait -vs- a Snapshot

nobody@flickr.com (stewbphoto) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:19:51 -0700

stewbphoto posted a reply:

It seems to me that there are still a lot of portraits being added not environmental portraits... i.e. images that have a very shallow depth of field and images that are cropped very tightly.... I don't see the usefulness of having an Environmental Portrait Group if you are just going to keep approving regular portraits. Some of the portraits I have seen are pretty good but there are plenty of other groups that host these types of images....

yes!!!!

No!!!!!
Also from a photojournalist stand point if there was no info (caption info) about the person who they are or what they do (for how long) then its just a snapshot to me. I always take environmental portraits and I take it as an opportunity to actually meet someone new and talk with them...

Reply to Question about posting a photograph

nobody@flickr.com (Jessica Yoakam) — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:31:13 -0700

Jessica Yoakam posted a reply:

Thank you for clearing that up, I appreciate it.

Reply to Question about posting a photograph

nobody@flickr.com (Burlap Jacket) — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:26:25 -0700

Burlap Jacket posted a reply:

It might be because your last picture was still in the queue to be approved when you tried to submit a new one. I just went through the pending selections and did approve one of your images. Cheers.

Question about posting a photograph

nobody@flickr.com (Jessica Yoakam) — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:23:35 -0700

Jessica Yoakam posted a new topic:

I understand that you can only post one photograph per week. I posted last week and went to post today and it let me go through the process of choosing a photographs, but every picture I clicked on in my group of photographs it gave me a '!' symbol and stated that I couldn't place the photo in the environmental portraits group. My main focus as a photographer is Environmental Portraits, and I'm just curious as to why I cant submit anything. I only have 1 photograph in the pool so far.