First of all Hello! and welcome to Justportraits!


Announcement
We have chosen four new contributors! Congratulations to =AFineWar *LucentAllure *andregregorio and *itokyoshoes! They will be our newest contributors helping out with the group. We think they are a fine fit and we are happy to have them as part of our admin team. And thank you to everyone who volunteered. We had lots of volunteers and all of them were great so it was very hard to choose!

Group Upgrade <-- We really need it!

If anyone is in the gift giving mood and would like to donate a Super Group subscription, we

would greatly appreciate it! You could also donate some points. We need 4.796 to make

this group SUPER! If you want to donate please go to this profile ~x-ReMuSik-x and you will find

the donation box there!


Rules

We are having different Folders, for each Category. (Please submit into the right folder!)

The Featured Deviations will be chosen by us. (until we get a SuperGroup Subscription)

Image quality and composition must be good.

We accept nudity when conceived as a form of art.

Any Submission will need 2 Votes to be accepted or declined.


And also please notice that body parts are not a Portrait!



Submissions to JustPortraits

Members and visitors should know that JustPortraits is about images of people. If you submit a photo of

your dog or a lovely snowy village, it's going to be declined. There will be a note saying why an image

has been declined.




Folders


Photography

Images submitted to this gallery must be photographs. We are declining any submission to this

gallery that is not a photograph! But please keep in mind that your submission to this gallery must be

a normal and clear photograph! Heavy manipulated images won't be accepted.


Traditional Art

This is for drawings, sculptures and paintings.  (Portraits ONLY!)


Digital Art / Photo Manipulation

This is for Digital Art or Manipulated Photographs.


Would you like to be a Gallery contributor of this group? Send us a note.


Thank you to ALL of you!

Every one of you is important to this group, and we are thrilled with the level of participation this

group enjoys. There is so much talent from all over the globe that ends up here. Your creative works,

your imagination, and your hard work are what makes this such an awesome group, and you deserve all the

kudos. If you need any other information or help please don't hesitate to leave a note or a comment!






They are our Donators -- please be so kind and check them out!




Thank you!

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What is a portrait?

Wikipedia defines a portrait as "a painting,
photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its
expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the
person. For this reason, in photography a portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of
a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or
photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer."

Merriam-Webster's definition is,
naturally, a little more succinct: "PICTURE; especially : a pictorial representation of a
person usually showing the face"