POST YOUR HEADSHOTS!

It was a rhetorical question, I've noticed this thread has gone off course. I've also seen people posting the same image on any thread vaguely associated with the subject matter. I think it just adds to the clutter.

tcphoto1 wrote in post #18502622
It was a rhetorical question, I've noticed this thread has gone off course. I've also seen people posting the same image on any thread vaguely associated with the subject matter. I think it just adds to the clutter.

Is image posting on POTN creating clutter?

agedbriar wrote in post #18502791
Is image posting on POTN creating clutter?

There are several posters who routinely post the same new image across a number of threads ... headshots; children, watch them grow; 135L f/2 image samples; prime lens portraits; best bokeh, etc., etc. I usually spot the duplication and manage not to waste time and expensive download capacity on viewing them multiple times.

I think it's clutter. But I understand why posters do this, especially when the core usage of POTN for them is as a channel to promote their photography. It doesn't bother me all that much ... although I'd rather people didn't do it.

Exactly

DaviSto wrote in post #18502799
There are several posters who routinely post the same new image across a number of threads ... headshots; children, watch them grow; 135L f/2 image samples; prime lens portraits; best bokeh, etc., etc. I usually spot the duplication and manage not to waste time and expensive download capacity on viewing them multiple times.

I think it's clutter. But I understand why posters do this, especially when the core usage of POTN for them is as a channel to promote their photography. It doesn't bother me all that much ... although I'd rather people didn't do it.

Perfectly clear, but please see what I bolded and underlined in the quote.

If repetition adds to the clutter, then clutter must exist before repetition happens.

old picture from 2014, but re-edited it since my style/taste has changed over the years

1 light (Alienbees B1600 in white beauty dish camera right), background texture added in PS

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/DCV4​sS

wow ShutterMonkey....that'​s friggin fantastic.

tcphoto1 wrote in post #18500292
What is the difference between a headshot and a portrait? I think there are a lot of portraits posted in this thread.

Headshots are more shoulders-up-ish.

Child portrait
(using one strobe and reflector)

TheShutterMonkey wrote in post #18503043
old picture 2014, but re-edited it since my style/taste has changed over the years

1 light (Alienbees B1600 in white beauty dish camera right), background texture added in PS

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/DCV4​sS Sierra by Ken, on Flickr

Super nice!

john123 wrote in post #18503239
Natural light shot.

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John,
Looks like at least a fill light on this. See the tiny catchlight at about 4:00 on the pupil? Also with the natural hair light that looks like it is coming form high and behind i would also guess there is a key light subject left, camera right and about 45 deg high (other catch light)?

TheShutterMonkey wrote in post #18504945

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/21UN​pJr Dakota Daulby by Ken, on Flickr

This......is a headshot.