nTOPAZ Portrait Photography Contest: Announcement of Winners

Portrait Photography Contest: Announcement of Winners

Hello fellow Photographers!

So here we go finally with announcement of the winners for nTOPAZ Portrait Photography contest. The second contest held by me as nTOPAZ curator. And again big thanks goes for nTOPAZ for quite an efforts of supporting ART at steemit platform.
A lot of entries again. Regret, but number of winners still limited, so here we go

The best of the best had to follow certain criteria…

1. Originality: Obviously the photos had to be not plagiarized
2. Emotion: Well, for me personally this is most important aspect of a portrait photography. And the most hard one – to catch true human emotions.
2. Composition: Composition is quite important in portrait photography as well. The shooting point, how the final photo is cropped, etc
3. Techniques, degree of difficulty: Sorry, but definitely just a selfies were not about to pass through the judging rounds. Yes, those are basically portraits, but you know…
4. Creativity: This is a kind f combination of composition skills and some unusual techniques
which can be used in portrait photography. Motion blurs, dynamic shots, and so on
5. Overall impression: And we are coming to final overall impressions of the image, which combines all previously described points. Additionally it can be hit also by post production and color grading in various photography editing software.

Let’s come to announcement!

1ST PLACE AND 3000 nTOPAZ tokens

A QUITE SCREAM by @jmvanbreda
https://www.ntopaz.com/artwork/15387

Definitely the most unusual portrait from all the list. And it just hits the top. Although it is still combined from two photos, still merged just perfectly and brings very special feeling Well deserved!!!

2ND PLACE AND 2000 nTOPAZ tokens

STUDY OF FLOW by @gunnarheilmann
https://www.ntopaz.com/artwork/15214

Amazing result using light painting technique. This portrait is like from some other world, most probably the world of Darkness …

SHINING LIKE GOLD by @itchyfeetdonica
https://www.ntopaz.com/artwork/15650

A perfect portrait of a young girl under daylight sun. Very well managed not to be overexposed. Great emotion and eyes contact. Good black and white management

3RD PLACE AND 1000 nTOPAZ tokens

AUNT MATILDE by @anaacosta
https://www.ntopaz.com/artwork/15613

The portraits of old people with lot of wrinkles always grabs some more attention. Would be even more dramatic if done in B&W, but here colors plays very well too. Quite a long history reflected on a face of this old lady

A PORTRAIT ON WOMEN’S DAY by @manoldonchev
https://www.ntopaz.com/artwork/15247

Yet another portrait of an old lady in black and white. Some true happiness in her eyes, very hard to catch thingie indeed

I COULD SET THIS WORLD ON FIRE AND CALL IT RAIN by @publicumaurora https://www.ntopaz.com/artwork/15529

Stunning location and outfit. Perfect model play on a strong sunlight. Colors, shadows and whatever else not mentioned…

So here we go, enjoy the result and some more PHOTOGRAPHIC contests by @nTOPAZ to follow in nearest future. STAY TUNED!!!