Emergency help!

[Boo_Radley]

I have an assignment due. I'm turning it in in a fe minutes. The assignment is "portraiture", including posed, semi-posed, "in the moment", and 'evnironmental portraiture', where the environment tells something about someone. I need to pick the best five, by the assignment, to turn in. Which two should I ditch?

[intheflow]

1. The 3rd and the 5th.

Neither of them show any real action, so are the least interesting, imo. Good luck! :hi:

On edit: the 3rd photo might have made a good portrait, but the lighting is harsh. Did you use a flash in the sunlight?

[Boo_Radley]

2. I did several of the last

Including using fill-flash to make it less hard, but it turned out even worse. (That's me, and I'm not comfortable with the weight I've gained, so I'm probably being petty and silly about it). The only reasons I like that one are because it covers an aspect of lighting and and aspect of portraiture that were covered in the lesson, so I think I'll get brownie points for looking like I learnt something.

The only attraction of the two dudes is that there's a sort of social juxtaposition implied. One is clearly a business dude, and the other is in street clothes, and taking notes. It looks like the first is lecturing. It kind of makes me wonder what's up.

I also may ditch the guy sweeping, because I trashed the framing on it.

[intheflow]

3. Maybe I said the wrong photo.

I liked the two guys interacting. It was the guy standing with the fishing pole that didn't interest me. But now I'm probably replying too late to do you any good.

[Boo_Radley]

4. Ah, yeah

It's a little late. I had to have that turned in today, so it's already gone. I ended up dropping the red guy sweeping, because I hosed up the composition, and I dropped the two dudes talking in favor of the self portrait, because I needed that element for the assignment, and because it was a different lighting style, and, mostly, because it was the only one I didn't center frame on. The teacher's already busted me for that bad habit, so I needed to show that I was learning something.

That fisher would have been better if I'd panned a little left, to include more of the water. I didn't really like this assignment, because I don't have people around here to pose. All my friends are in Florida, and no one from class could get together this weekend.