Nice light and clean backgrounds area crucial to portraits so the reader is introduced to the subject. Captions for each needed more info -- tell us why the person is being photographed. If any one image had a better caption, it would have moved up a place.
First: Sophisticated lighting and clean composition make this a successful portrait.
Second: Interesting composition and good use of greenery to create a clean foreground.
Third: Good use of lighting to achieve a black background.
Judges:
Caroline Couig/Independent visials editor, Bradley E. Clift/Contract Photographer - U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Judges Comments
Nice light and clean backgrounds area crucial to portraits so the reader is introduced to the subject. Captions for each needed more info -- tell us why the person is being photographed. If any one image had a better caption, it would have moved up a place. First: Sophisticated lighting and clean composition make this a successful portrait. Second: Interesting composition and good use of greenery to create a clean foreground. Third: Good use of lighting to achieve a black background.