The Perfect Picture; Minimalist Landscape and Imperfect Portrait

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 23:23 by Elja Trum | 5,834 views | 0 comments

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Tonight was already the fifth episode of The Perfect Picture on television. We are now halfway through this season. This episode once again featured landscape photography and portrait photography.

Minimalist landscape

For the first assignment, the celebrities went to the Veluwe to take minimalist landscape photos. The photo had to have a well-considered composition and the image had to move you. Landscape photographer Bas Meelker was there again to give the contestants tips.

For this assignment, they were allowed to work with the Canon EOS RP and a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens or the 100mm f/2.8 Macro.

I have to say that the result from the contestants was a little disappointing. Only Soy made a beautiful photo, so he was rightly declared the winner of this assignment.

Winning photo by Soy - f/3.2, 1/4000s, 100 ISO
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Home assignment

This week's home assignment is to take a minimalist landscape photo.

In the video below, Bas Meelker gives you a few more landscape photography tips. Need more tips? Then check out Bas Meelker's Landscape Photography Masterclass on Photofacts Academy. In addition, if you become a member now, you will also receive the book De Landschapsbijbel for free.

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Perfect imperfection portrait

The second assignment was to create a perfect imperfection portrait. All the contestants were assigned a model with an imperfection and had to make a perfect portrait of them.

Former Olympic athlete and portrait photographer Moniek Velzeboer was the extra judge for this assignment and also came to help the contestants.

For this assignment, the celebrities worked with the Canon 90D DSLR and a 24-105mm f/4L lens. A great combination for beautiful portrait photos.

Winning photo by Soy - f/6.3, 1/2000s, 6400 ISO
Once again, Soy turned out to have taken the winning photo for this assignment. I don't know if I necessarily thought it was the strongest photo myself, but it is certainly not bad.

The camera settings are rather striking, though. A slightly lower ISO and slower shutter speed would have been fine.

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Exit for..

The beautiful portrait photo Raymond took in the last assignment was striking. Unfortunately, it was not properly in focus, otherwise it probably would have won the assignment.

He therefore finished last because of the lack of sharpness. Combined with his poor score in the landscape assignment, this meant that he had to leave the programme this week.

I suspect, incidentally, that he accidentally set his lens to manual focus, which made every photo out of focus. A real shame, of course.

Next week

Next week, the celebrities will do a military shoot and a 'fashion mindfuck' shoot.

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