Hello and Welcome to JustPortraits!

Group Upgrade <-- We really need it!

We really need the Super Group Subscription so we can start featuring your work and also holding some contests...

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!  All the donors will be featured in this journal.

If someone is donating the subscription will be featured on our profile.


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 Donors -- please be so kind and support them!




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"

First of all Hello! and welcome to Justportraits!
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1/16/2013   Hey everyone! I'm so glad to see this group still thriving and gaining new members since I started it 6 years ago! It's amazing. I just wanted to drop in and say hi to everyone and welcome to anyone new to the group. Hope you all had a great new year!  - mrsselfdestruct
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Group Upgrade <-- We really need it!

We really need the Super Group Subscription so we can start featuring your work and also holding some contests...

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!  All the donors will be featured in this journal.

If someone is donating the subscription will be featured on our profile.


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 Donors -- please be so kind and support them!




Thank you!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"

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!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"

First of all Hello! and welcome to Justportraits!


Announcement
We get around 50 submissions per day, so sometimes it takes us a while to accept all of them. Recently some of our contributors became inactive and we had to demote them. Because of this, we are now looking for new contributors that will actively vote on submissions! You don't have to log on every day, but you do need to vote as often as you are able to. If you are interested in becoming a contributor, please send a note to the group or to ~x-ReMuSik-x saying that you are interested. We will then choose the contributors and let you know. It may take us a while to choose, so don't be discouraged if you don't hear back right away.

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!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"

First of all Hello! and welcome to Justportraits!


Announcement

First of all: don't be offended if your image is declined - keep in mind that we want to improve the quality of the images in this group and we believe a change has been made; we are receiving really good imagery. If your image has been declined might be because you submitted in the wrong folder and we are not accepting this kind of compromise or your image is not exactly what we are looking for. Don't get upset just work harder!
Some of the images you are sending don't even include a portrait- we do not accept this kind of work; some do contain portraits but with not enough emphasis on it - here is where things get harder for us, but we are trying to be rational and to appreciate good ideas.

Secondly, we are working really hard to vote for your images but because there are loads of submissions, the accept/decline process might take a while (as you all know you needed 3 votes for your image now we dropped the number of votes to 2 in order for you to get your response as soon as possible).
As I said before, the reason I made this blog entry is quite simple: please focus more on what you are sending. We want to improve the quality of images in this group so we won't accept body parts pictures or pictures where the person ( portrait or straight up photography) will take less than 70% of the picture. A portrait doesn't mean only head- photography but we can not accept a picture where we can barely see the model.
Also- focus on the folder you are submitting- we had to decline some really good images because they were submitted in the wrong folders.

All this been said- go take some really nice photographs and share them with us!

xxx


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!



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!


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!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"