Bit surely a portrait is meant to make the viewer feel something about the character being portrayed: their emotions or character or thoughts.

Deciding that a portrait competition should be won on technical grounds alone seems to be against the idea of portraiture.

I actually find the shot very flat and characterless technically, just because of the way it is lighted.

Anyway, as I said I have entered one photo comp, was not even mentioned and totally could not work out why the winner won: not aganst me...tyhere were far getter shots than mine in the comp, but against other shots.

I have seen many others, that I was not in, about which I felt the same. So never again.

Nick

  Any photo should leave me completely unmoved.  The winner did a magnificent job

As somebody here said, it makes me realise why I never enter art competitions of any kind.

Nick.

Yes, I have thought about that. I guess I am just used to a forum-based approach, where comments and replies are "in line"

Nick

OK. Thanks

Nick

Thanks for that.

If I post a comment in the comments area, do they get notified?

Nick

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dukduk was the only one who has given me real help here, and dukduk seems to have moved on to other things, mostly....UVDAN has tried as well. If I forget anyone, I am sorry Others have told me I : - am wrong - should understand - should simply ignore a BUG , and get on with it - should have listened first time, and backed up with quotes from an outdated manual that mutter. If I forgot anyone I am truly sorry. I am sure you want to know how much you head-in-the-sand, judgmental off-putting has deterred yet another customer. TEACHERS? lot of happy happy joy ruddy fairy-bunnies, most of you. render on! phphph!

dukduk was the only one who has given me real help here, and dukduk seems to have moved on to other things, mostly....UVDAN has tried as well. If I forget anyone, I am sorry Others have told me I : - am wrong - should understand - should simply ignore a BUG , and get on with it - should have listened first time, and backed up with quotes from an outdated manual that mutter. If I forgot anyone I am truly sorry. I am sure you want to know how much you head-in-the-sand, judgmental off-putting has deterred yet another customer. TEACHERS? lot of happy happy joy ruddy fairy-bunnies, most of you. render on! phphph!

dukduk was the only one who has given me real help here, and dukduk seems to have moved on to other things, mostly....UVDAN has tried as well. If I forget anyone, I am sorry Others have told me I : - am wrong - should understand - should simply ignore a BUG , and get on with it - should have listened first time, and backed up with quotes from an outdated manual that mutter. If I forgot anyone I am truly sorry. I am sure you want to know how much you head-in-the-sand, judgmental off-putting has deterred yet another customer. TEACHERS? lot of happy happy joy ruddy fairy-bunnies, most of you. render on! phphph!

dukduk was the only one who has given me real help here, and dukduk seems to have moved on to other things, mostly....UVDAN has tried as well. If I forget anyone, I am sorry Others have told me I : - am wrong - should understand - should simply ignore a BUG , and get on with it - should have listened first time, and backed up with quotes from an outdated manual that mutter. If I forgot anyone I am truly sorry. I am sure you want to know how much you head-in-the-sand, judgmental off-putting has deterred yet another customer. TEACHERS? lot of happy happy joy ruddy fairy-bunnies, most of you. render on! phphph!

dukduk was the only one who has given me real help here, and dukduk seems to have moved on to other things, mostly....UVDAN has tried as well. If I forget anyone, I am sorry Others have told me I : - am wrong - should understand - should simply ignore a BUG , and get on with it - should have listened first time, and backed up with quotes from an outdated manual that mutter. If I forgot anyone I am truly sorry. I am sure you want to know how much you head-in-the-sand, judgmental off-putting has deterred yet another customer. TEACHERS? lot of happy happy joy ruddy fairy-bunnies, most of you. render on! phphph!

dukduk was the only one who has given me real help here, and dukduk seems to have moved on to other things, mostly....UVDAN has tried as well. If I forget anyone, I am sorry Others have told me I : - am wrong - should understand - should simply ignore a BUG , and get on with it - should have listened first time, and backed up with quotes from an outdated manual that mutter. If I forgot anyone I am truly sorry. I am sure you want to know how much you head-in-the-sand, judgmental off-putting has deterred yet another customer. TEACHERS? lot of happy happy joy ruddy fairy-bunnies, most of you. render on! phphph!

you forget one thing old nick bryce is not a program but a >religion. ;) exactly.

Now that some fuckard has sworn at me...I did not come here for the advice I got from you. AND I DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING MANUAL FOR V5, BECAUSE I AM USING V5.5 AND I USE THAT FUCKING MANUAL....ok. I know it does not work. I am pointing this out. IF I am not supposed to use them then grey the fucking things out. It's just good sense. WTF does versatility have to do with allowing something to fuck up? IT DOES NOT WORK. It is BROKEN. Bryce is viable. hmmm..let's see. Multiple owners. It's now being sold at a fraction to get up and running again after Corel dropped it. It makes more sense to simply fix them! to make the fucking programme like 99% of other programmes I have tried. errr hello...they WORKED. THE PROGRAMME IS 10 YEARS OLD? MAYBE IT NEEDS A REVAMP? Maybe it needs to listen, instead of castigating any questioner. This whole thing is BS. Everybody keeps talking about the Camera POSITION. I KNOW THE CAMERA POSITION POSITION* POSITION does not change. But where the manual falls into a sort of magic mumbling about why things become "distorted by zooming" and it's all very coimplex mumble mumble, and why ..no hang on...HOW...they become erratic I KNOW WHY THE DISTORTION HAPPENS. I HAVE STUDIED PHOTOGRAPHY. BRYCE BEHAVES EXACTLY AS A CAMERA SHOULD....except that it's broken. THE *camera IS CHANGED! ITS *************FOCAL LENGTH ************** IS ALTERED. It should not bounce around all over the place on the way back, if you call it a camera. sigh....and I have seen the same bahaviour in the ortho views....as I said before i thkn.

If you are in the camera view, then you can edit the >camera settings. Note the FOV (Field of View) and Scale. If I am in the Director's View, I can get a renderable result, barring silly behaviour by Bryce. I can rotate the view in any direction, visually using the camera controls and get a rendition that looks like that. If I use the rotate device in the camera view, I simply see what I was watching fly off screen, as if +I_ had spun around while holding the camera. The Director can zoom around the whole picture, visually, at will! I can look at any side of any object, without moving the object. AND I get a rendered image that is exactly what I see at any time....barring silly behaviour by Bryce. That's the nub. The Director's View can be used for full rendition. It has all the power of the camera View, including Zooming in panning and swooping about the whole scene. If nobody uses it, and the only answer is "don't use it" and the broken parts are not going to be addressed, take it away, and I will find another package.