Antonio's B&W portraits (15 images)

Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
edited January 15, 2012 in People
More ?? Here please :)
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All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook

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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    These are wonderful, and the whole gallery is amazing. Thank you for posting these.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Icebear wrote: »
    These are wonderful, and the whole gallery is amazing. Thank you for posting these.

    I thank you for dropping the comment :Dbowdown.gifbow
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • canoesailorcanoesailor Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Great pics, you've picked some real characters. What's the background?
    John T
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
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  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    These are fantastic! Great work.......

    Sam
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Posted on SmugMug's FB Wall: http://www.facebook.com/SmugMug/posts/328804400473834
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    canoesailor wrote: »
    Great pics, you've picked some real characters. What's the background?

    Excuse me but I do not understand what you mean. ne_nau.gif

    What background ? I do not understand because they all have been photographed in many parts of the World and the background is always different. I think it is not this what you mean because it is too obvious...

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    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    canoesailor wrote: »
    Great pics, you've picked some real characters. What's the background?
    Sam wrote: »
    These are fantastic! Great work.......

    Sam

    bowdown.gif Sam
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Andy wrote: »
    Posted on SmugMug's FB Wall: http://www.facebook.com/SmugMug/posts/328804400473834


    I am flattered Andy :D:D

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  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Totally awesome!!!
    Charles
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Hackbone wrote: »
    Totally awesome!!!


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  • canoesailorcanoesailor Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Antonio Correia wrote: »
    Excuse me but I do not understand what you mean. ne_nau.gif

    What background ? I do not understand because they all have been photographed in many parts of the World and the background is always different. I think it is not this what you mean because it is too obvious...

    bowdown.gif

    Hi Antonio
    I just wondered how you came to be travelling in all these areas and did you just approach the people and ask to take their pics or were you pursuing a theme. Some of us never get chance to get out to such places and it's always interesting to find out how such photos came to be taken.
    John T
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    canoesailor wrote: »
    Hi Antonio
    I just wondered how you came to be travelling in all these areas and did you just approach the people and ask to take their pics or were you pursuing a theme. Some of us never get chance to get out to such places and it's always interesting to find out how such photos came to be taken.

    In all of these there are only one Portuguese. The others were photographed in India, Indonesia and so on.
    At the beginning I was making portraits for nothing. In fact when I was young soem 500 years ago, I made an image of a girl clap.gif which was a great success using my father's Rolleicord.

    Now, I have been collecting portraits and I always ask people if I can take their picture and suddenly I realized I had many. I decided then to treat them with the knowledge I have been acquiring with the years.

    Now I keep on this trend. Perhaps I should say theme among others.

    :Dbowdown.gif
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • Bryce WilsonBryce Wilson Registered Users Posts: 1,586 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Wow, just wow!

    The bar has just been raised.bowdown.gif
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Bryce Wilson wrote: »
    Wow, just wow!

    The bar has just been raised.bowdown.gif


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  • zoomerzoomer Registered Users Posts: 3,688 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Really nice work, thanks for sharing these with us.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    zoomer wrote: »
    Really nice work, thanks for sharing these with us.


    I bowdown.gif, not you to me :D

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  • FlyNavyFlyNavy Registered Users Posts: 1,350 Major grins
    edited January 14, 2012
    Very impressive work!! What software did you use to process the photos?
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  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Wonderful work thumb.gif
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    FlyNavy wrote: »
    Very impressive work!! What software did you use to process the photos?


    I use LR and CS5
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    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    FlyNavy wrote: »
    Very impressive work!! What software did you use to process the photos?
    zoomer wrote: »
    Really nice work, thanks for sharing these with us.


    bowdown.gifD
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • canoesailorcanoesailor Registered Users Posts: 79 Big grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Antonio Correia wrote: »
    In all of these there are only one Portuguese. The others were photographed in India, Indonesia and so on.
    At the beginning I was making portraits for nothing. In fact when I was young soem 500 years ago, I made an image of a girl clap.gif which was a great success using my father's Rolleicord.

    Now, I have been collecting portraits and I always ask people if I can take their picture and suddenly I realized I had many. I decided then to treat them with the knowledge I have been acquiring with the years.

    Now I keep on this trend. Perhaps I should say theme among others.

    :Dbowdown.gif

    Thanks Antonio
    It's interesting to know - there's hope for the rest of usrolleyes1.gif
    John T
    www.jtsphotoblog.blogspot.co.uk
    www.johngwynant.blogspot.co.uk
  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Antonio, the years of work and the recent effort to unify the look of these have definitely paid off! :Dthumb.gif

    Take care, my friend!

    Don
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    DonRicklin wrote: »
    Antonio, the years of work and the recent effort to unify the look of these have definitely paid off! :Dthumb.gif

    Take care, my friend!

    Don


    Yes Ron. Indeed ... bowdown.gif

    The recent effort and commitment were - and still are - important.

    I am going to keep on them (the effort and the commitment) :D

    Sometimes we may have - or, we have - through our photographic work of years a transversal line we have to discover and see. :D
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
  • HackboneHackbone Registered Users Posts: 4,027 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    I wouldbe very interested in some of the steps you used in your processing of these images. It would be very educational for everyone. Thanks in advance.
    Charles
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  • wholenewlightwholenewlight Registered Users Posts: 1,529 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Wonderful shots - thumb.gif
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Charles, the Nik software plug-in I bought some days ago is not the panacea for our images but it dose help a lot.

    They are quite expensive (not quite but very expensive) and the Nik Software Silver Efex Pro 2 has so many options and adjustments to play with that needless to describe you what I do ( if you or anybody else really wish I will do it ) because most probably, you are going to end with something you like.

    And what I like is this you see here and in some of my black and white photographs. mwink.gif
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    Please have a look here at this post of mines.
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    Something else I would like to say:
    I think that most of the photographers we see around the web uses massively some kind of software.
    Obvious statement ! I mean massively. And this is one of the reasons you see so many similar images witch the author can not be immediately identifiable.

    Images lack identity.

    The point is that you should be able to get your own style on photography and that makes the difference.

    My portraits are good I know and I am aware of that. Or at least most of them are good.

    But I try to apply the plug-ins as my personal style as much as I can.

    A style is hard to build because everybody takes pictures these days. :D

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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
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    wholenewlight wrote: »
    Wonderful shots - thumb.gif
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  • BrettDeutschBrettDeutsch Registered Users Posts: 365 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    Beautiful shots, as everyone says. Very impressive. My only critique is that (to me) some of the shots are over-sharpened to the point of the skin looking a little 'crunchy'. I think if they were to be blown up on a big print, that would really jump out. But that's just my personal taste.
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  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2012
    BrettDeutsch wrote: »
    Beautiful shots, as everyone says. Very impressive. My only critique is that (to me) some of the shots are over-sharpened to the point of the skin looking a little 'crunchy'. I think if they were to be blown up on a big print, that would really jump out. But that's just my personal taste.

    Thank you Brett. :D
    I mean the crunchy look you know... :D
    All the best ! ... António Correia - Facebook
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