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Grab Portraits Challenge: Fast Grab- Portaits: No lights, no reflectors.

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Superbly textured b.g., just perfect with her pose!

I love it!
 

Antonio Correia

Well-known member
Here, unless she know me nothing about your intended picture, shows some tentative withdrawal to herself and hesitancy at socialising. Could be modesty or a head full of worries! But she is beautiful in that makeup! Asher

She was shot during a sun set in Bagan, Burma and she is a seller trying to convince people to buy something.

This fellow has seen a lot in life and seems either cynical or weary. He certainly has no freshness, humor or bubbling joy of life to share at this moment! So what is his truth? Asher

he was watching someone cooking in the street. He looks suspicions of what is being done.

Thank you for commenting Asher ! :)

Another from Burma
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Jerome Marot

Well-known member
It is the part of the title which reads "no lights" that amused me. Michelle's portrait did not involve the use of light... ;)
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
It is the part of the title which reads "no lights" that amused me. Michelle's portrait did not involve the use of light... ;)

Well, Jerome,

That depends on how you choose to define “use”!

After all, likely as not, the myriads of patches of skin texture were learned from sampling real faces lit with real incident light.

Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
Indeed, the paper explains that the algorithm was trained on a new dataset created for the occasion:
We have collected a new dataset of human faces, Flickr- Faces-HQ (FFHQ), consisting of 70,000 high-quality im- ages at 10242 resolution (Figure 7). The dataset includes vastly more variation than CelebA-HQ [29] in terms of age, ethnicity and image background, and also has much bet- ter coverage of accessories such as eyeglasses, sunglasses, hats, etc. The images were crawled from Flickr (thus in- heriting all the biases of that website) and automatically aligned and cropped. Only images under permissive li- censes were collected. Various automatic filters were used to prune the set, and finally Mechanical Turk allowed us to remove the occasional statues, paintings, or photos of photos. We have made the dataset publicly available at https://github.com/NVlabs/ffhq-dataset
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
She was shot during a sun set in Bagan, Burma and she is a seller trying to convince people to buy something.



he was watching someone cooking in the street. He looks suspicions of what is being done.

Thank you for commenting Asher ! :)

Another from Burma
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Prayer is such an interesting phenomenon. I wonder what the prequel was to this human meditative and reflexive subservient State?

Have we learned to prostate ourselves to benevolent powerful conquerors like the great Persian King, Cyrus, who didn’t generally slaughter those he invaded but allowed freedoms for their culture and leaders?

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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Is she real? OMG, Jerome has brought us to doubt what our eyes see!

Perhaps they will have call girls hanging around the bars that are actually robots controlled by a robot pimp!

But this lady looks so friendly and wholesome. Perhaps a doctor or maybe a teacher or researcher?

Now I am perplexed!

Asher
 

Peter Dexter

Well-known member
"Perhaps they will have call girls hanging around the bars that are actually robots controlled by a robot pimp"

Probably already have that in Japan.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Antonio,

Yes it’s better, but it was already fabulous, showing a fine positive modern self confidant woman!

Interesting as she pauses her life and enters your framing, to greet us, for a moment!

Asher
 

JimCollum

pro member
Hey Asher!

Been a bit.. but picking up the camera again :)

although older image.. figured I'd add a few natural light images (actually pretty much the only type of light I use for portraits

these are from window light (a BNB we stayed in during a trip to Montreal.. and this sitting room was just windows (and gaudy furniture :) )

(2nd are siblings ..)

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