Assignment 5: Portraits and Emotion: CONGRATULATIONS Dave Johnston

Assignment 5 is here courtesy of Jorundr-Jorgensen. For this assignment post a portrait that captures a specific emotion well. The emotion can be any you choose, just let us know what emotion you were aiming for!


Have fun shooting, submissions will be open till Monday. Jorundr-Jorgensen and mattsartin will be judging this assignment.





We have the finalists in. Please vote below, and add a comment of congratulations! I have included the emotion intended by the photographer next to their name to help your decision.





Dave Johnston: Blissful Contemplation


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Jordan: Enjoyment


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Ehcalum: Reverence


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clemmb: Love


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powers_brent: Excitement


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Sean Setters: Rage


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Scott: Loss


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I'm going to go ahead and show something anyways even though I'm judging, I wont lie I looked at a list of emotions to try and best describe this [:P]


Canon XTi & 50mm 1.8 II "Elation"


1/200s f/2.5 ISO 400


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Emotion: Sadness


http://www.crosbyharbison.com/files/sad.jpg


Girls react to losing their CIF Finals volleyball game.


iso 800, 155 mm, f/2.8, 1/320 sec, 1 off camera flash camera left ~250 ft. @ 1/1 triggered with PW's Plus II.

Excitement! (excited that the ORIGINAL Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is back on ABC Saturday mornings) http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4035/...3b7f8fca_b.jpg


Canon Rebel XS with 100mm f/2.0 @ 2.0, 1/125 sec, ISO 200.


Kodak P20 Flash shot thru camera right @ 1/4? power and 430EXII (which misfired, so you can't see it at all)at 1/16? behind subject left tiggered by yong nuo CTR-301p. SOOC!

took this pic of my cousin dec 26th. she was curious about high iso and noise with my rebel XSi, so i took a pic of her to show her. guess the best emotion would be concentration.


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rebel XSI, 28-135 lens, iso 1600, f/5.6, 1/60 sec, 270ex fired as fill flash

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Taken with 50D 70-200f/2.8 IS, and 430EX2. F/7.1 1/250sec. 140mm

Excitment, anticipation:


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Canon 5D, 24-105 f/4 IS USM


105mm, 1/60s, f/4, ISO 1600

The emotion I was trying to capture is being in love. The pose was spontaneous.

XTi, 24-105 @ 84mm, f4.5, 1/25, ISO 100, 580 EX, manual exposure.





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Mark

this picture is from a recent trip to india . it was taken in Fort kochi at sunset time.


emotion : innocently lost


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canon 40D f7.1 1/1000 sec iso 200 70 mm

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this picture is from a recent trip to india . it was taken in Fort kochi at sunset time.


emotion : innocently lost

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I misread your emotion as "innocence lost" and it give the photo a completely different feel. Not a good one at that, but innocently lost, yeah better emotion.

wow ! yeah not really what i meant !!!!!funny.... but not funny! please clean up your mind or monitor [:)]

Emotion: Engrossed


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1D3, 135mm, f2.8, 1/320, ISO 1600, AV.

Wow, great enteries people! Keep it going. [:)]

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LOSS


50D 1/200 f/4 nifty 50@ 1.8 Elinchrom Strobe with soft box

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PROUD


50D 18-200 @60mm ISO100 f/10 1/200th Elinchrom softbox

Reverence


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Wow, these assignments are getting better and better. Great topics.Awesome submissions.

Enjoyment!


One of the first professional gigs I did. Canon Rebel XSi, EF-S 18-55mm kit lens, f/3.5 @ 1/1600 sec (Program Mode probably) ISO 100.


Jordan Murphy


www.freshphotohawaii.com

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wow ! yeah not really what i meant !!!!!funny.... but not funny! please clean up your mind or monitor [img]/emoticons/emotion-1.gif[/img]
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I was thinking of Haiti, and death in families, not my mind that needs to be cleaned up. But yeah, not funny at all.


dan

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Satisfaction!


Camera: Canon EOS 30D
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/4.0
Focal Length: 73 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Lens Model: EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM

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Offering


Canon Rebel XS, 50mm, f/2.8, 1/320 sec, ISO 200

This was taken on the streets of Vancouver, BC using manual pre-focus taking advantage of the hyperfocal distance. Camera was held down by my hip and the shot was taken as I walked by. Emotion is "downtrodden."


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This is from a shoot I did with my friends, the emotion is apathy


Exif: 1/80 f/8.0 XTi 24-70 f2.8 w/ 1 KF36 flash full power bounce out of an umbrella upper camera left 1 KF36 at 1/4 bare aimed upper right and very close to the wall, and a 430EX full power bounce from an umbrella camera upper right


The girl on the right doesn't like this shot because she "Looks so mean"... oh well I think they look great haha


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Alrighty, I'll throw in a shot out of left field...


Rage.



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Longing


A homeless woman holds her partner in a bus shelter as she watches a young couple enter their new Mercedes Benz.


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Blissful contemplation.


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Canon 50D + 50mm f1.4 @ 1.4 50mm 1/60" ISO-640 exposure comp -1/3 AP.

Heyy, i got a set of quiet scary photos :| this one was myfavorite, i think itcapturesdespair really well. :)


-Alex


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Love &amp; Contentment, candid


This is my sister and her husband outside their new house in Big Sur, celebrating the end of construction.


40D + 50mm 1.4, 1/160 @ 5.6 ISO100, cropped to square.


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Well I'm not sure if this counts as a portrait but it shows exhaustion and enjoyment at the same time after a "wide tire bicycle race" a childrens bicycle "race" [:P] After 1 lap of about half a mile this girl was glad to be back at the finish [:D]


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50D with 70-200 F4L at 200mm iso100 1/800 f5

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EF70-200mm F4 L

Coy........in a devilish sort of way......


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Canon EOS 20D, EF 50 f1.4 @<span class="nowrap"]f/4, <span class="nowrap"]1/250, <span class="nowrap"]ISO 200, Bounce <span class="nowrap"]Flash (Quantarray 9550)


<span class="nowrap"]I think it creates more emotion than it represents. ILaugh evertime I see it.

Keith,


Awesome shot! I love the idea!


Little bit bummed that I haven't had time to participate in this!


Great photos everyone!


Rodger

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Keith,


Awesome shot! I love the idea!


Little bit bummed that I haven't had time to participate in this!


Great photos everyone!


Rodger

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Thanks Rodger!

Taken while ontravelling Cambodia at Tonle Sap (a huge fresh water lake) outside of Siem Reap.


I guess the emotion being conveyed here would be one of Contentment


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Nice work in this thread

Agreed! [Y]


How far are we these days? I mean with the assignment,,

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I photographed this two years ago during my trip to my grandfather's hometown in Ben Tre, Vietnam. These elementary school students are such great subject to photograph. As soon as I raised my camera, they all came and made faces to the cameras, as you can see the girls are more shy than the boys. Notice the school yard is not paved, the children are wearing slippers instead of shoes and if you look carefuly I intentionally added the barbwire fence in the forground.


Taken with my 40D and EF 24-70 f/2.8L


Nate,

Nice, Nate. You really captured a nice mood with this.


Kids that age I try to photograph usually think it is funny to cover up the lens with their hands. Maybe the barbed wire helped in more ways than one :)

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How far are we these days? I mean with the assignment,,
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I should have a finalist list sometime in the next 24 hours, and will open the polls. Sorry about this guys, I dropped the ball on communication.


Thanks for being patient, and great shots everyone.