SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

Actually, “portrait” being a word that’s been in the English language for a very long time is already pretty well defined. Different dictionaries may use slightly different words but essentially the meaning is the same.
Merriam-Webster says: PICTURE
especially : a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face
The Oxford Language Dictionary says: a painting, drawing, photograph, or engraving of a person, especially one depicting only the face or head and shoulders.
Pretty simple. JC Penney headshot, glamor shot, boudoir shot, all portraits. I know trying to redefine words that already have straightforward definitions is a favorite pastime for some around here. You can believe what you want but that’s not gonna make it right.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

MBW worked for Life Magazine and they wouldn't send her out with the wrong gear! They had photo specialists with vast, deep knowledge of cameras, lenses, lighting, and technique, and no doubt would have researched what aerial photography from a war plane required.

That lady was a pioneer in so many ways. I have total respect for her work. The world was a very different place 80± years ago.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

There you go trying to pigeonhole photos based on your opinion. They are ALL portraits. As for glamor shots, I find them to rarely be sexually suggestive. And professional model shots are often sexually charged. As for street photography, it can absolutely be portraiture and some of the best street shots are portraits.

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twb930s Loc: Aldie, Virginia

Margaret Bourke-White was an American photographer. She was born in New York and was married to the author Erskine Caldwell for a few years. She did spend much of her time in Europe and Russia working for Life Magazine, but she was American, not European.

MrPhotog

A significant portion of the population self-identifies along the lines of their sexuality.

The same could be said about those who self define their religion, or their musical or fashion choices, or in any other way.

A businessman may want to look like the stereotype of others in their field. An athlete may want to look sweaty. A ballerina may want to be monumentalized en pointe.

And a sex worker (legal in some areas, not so in others) may choose something they find appropriate to their line of work is suitable for their walls.

A good ‘portrait’ should indeed ‘portray’ (the words have the same root) that person’s lifestyle and how they define it or express it.

Or sometimes it how we perceive a person.

E.L.. Shapiro Loc: Ottawa, Ontario Canada

BMW is carrying a COMBAT GRAPHIC in that image. A similar mode was used for certain aerial recon runs to preclude bellows. One important rule of aerial photography is don't get your bellows in the slipstream which would make fast work of them! Almost as important is rule #-1 when boarding a gunship (helicopter) where the rotor is in motion -CHOUCH AND DUCK unless you are into decapitation.

Even a strong and brave lady like MBW would have difficulty managing the K-series Aeria Camera shown in the attached image. Designed by Fairchild and made by Graflex! There are smaller modes for the 4x5 film format. The big guys used 10" roll film.

xt2 Loc: British Columbia, Canada

A bit of a “time-waster” this one, everyone here knows the definition of “portrait” sounds a bit like this: A likeness of a person, especially one showing the face, that is created by a painter or photographer. Cheers!

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

Ed, are you just now figuriing out that this place is the 7th grade? lol

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

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I had always thought that Kay Summersby was Ike's main squeeze.

RodeoMan Loc: St Joseph, Missouri

"You call that a camera, now "this" is a camera!!"

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Much less a time wasterer than What Lenses for a Cruise, UV Filters, etc etc. This thread is actually about images. Way too rare on UHH.

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Agreed. Took a peep myself to check what youve said, and youre 101% correct. Didnt stay long enough to stumble on any good images. All very sad photographic garbage.

I have a friend who is enormously great at various degrees of nakedness, costuming, settings, etc. FWIW to silly UHH discussion, that friend uses ALL the pixels of his 61MP camera. His images, usually printed about 16x24, would not be the same at less rez.

He taught himself in a year or two, from scratch, and without the leisure time that Hawgsters seem to enjoy. Hes an ER doc, verrrrrrry busy. Learned photo during the height of the pandemic.

Ava'sPapa Loc: Cheshire, Ct.

The soldier up above is getting ready to take a vacation in Rome in a week or two...what lenses would you recommend he take? Nothing too heavy, because weight is important.

awesome14 Loc: UK

We're talking about a million years of natural selection in which genetic survival and mating traits have been preserved. while inferior traits have died with their owners. At one point there were no laws, governments, courts of law, police; and we can only assume obtaining consent from a female hadn't even been imagined. If anything it would been viewed as an unnecessary and irrelevant impediment to reproduction.

So, the trait im males of just putting a female down on all fours, pushing her cheek to ground, and inseminating her, resulted in superior reproductive ability, and the the trait was preserved through generations. Similarly, women with large, firm, well-formed, pointed-up breasts made desireable mates, because large, firm breasts are higher in mammary--milk producing-- tissue, which produce better nutrition for a.man's children. Well-formed breasts are symmetrical, indicating genetic diversity, communicating to the male that that his offspring will benefit from many immune factors passed to infants through breast milk.

Pointed-up breasts indicated they are unused, which up until the 1960s indicated virginity. Today, they imply virginity. Evolution doesn't react as quickly as rational thought. Implied is the first fruit of the womb is yet to be reaped. These are all superior mating traits. But in order to have his babies take advantage of such breasts, he needs a baby by the owner. Hence, the male mating response to large, firm, well-formed, pointed-up breasts.

Sensual beauty is and unspoken language understood only by masculinity. It is a line item blueprint of the female's relative reproductive and infant-feeding potential. The objective of nude female portraits is to depict genetically superior female mating stock. Men prefer the way God dresses women, because they're religious.

Evolution has not caught up to industrialized civilization. If it had, males would have a mating response to industrial food-processing plants that manufacture infant formula. Sensual beauty is an unspoken language between God and man, the 2 masculine things in the universe. The female is that part of nature created as a gift to the man. So, the male communes with God and nature when viewing sensual beauty.

It is an unspoken promise of new life in the image of married lovers and in the image of God. So, erotic nudes are understandably popular among men. Every truly erotic experience carries with the promise of a divine gift. This was first verbalized in 300B.C.

The wise find it convincing, while the merely clever remain unconvinced. Tattooed females deface their purity as given to them by God. Men who prefer inked females are attracted to rebellion against God, which makes the female an easy target for use as barren flesh to sate the male's primal urge.

Pure females have no ink. They are exactly the way God created them. Men who prefer pure females are attracted to the beauty of innocence; that the girl hasn't had some other guy's jism up her reproductive tract. Such a girl makes a fine obedient wife, who chastity is rewarded by her fertile bounty. She can teach her daughters chastity without indicting herself.

Because of the above, the most valuable depiction of the female is the display of her sensual beauty. Pick up chicks, hot babe, stone fox, etc. are timeless. Women want to be desired. They have no power over over masculine males, because any woman will trade everything she has for true love. Without that, no female will ever be happy. If she has no man to please, and to desire her for her beauty, to give her children, a name for her children, a house, to support her financially and emotionally, for her to submit to in cheerful obedience, and for whom to bear nurse offspring; preferably manchild; she will become bitter, calloused, vengeful, and ugly!

There is truly no greater curse upon a female than to be childless and supporting herself. That means she couldn't attract a male to give her children, nor support her. That is a sad commentary. Her genetic code, being objectionable to God Almighty, for she failed to use her body in a way pleasing to God: to reproduce God's image; will be forever purged from among the living. She will be utterly forgotten, as if she had never existed. In every generation the genetic code of the wicked is purged, while that of the righteous is preserved. This is why evil can never prevail for long. A hot babe is gentically superior female mating stock.

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

I’m dumbfounded. What 18th century rock did you just crawl out from under?