50 Magnificent Male Portraits

50 Magnificent Male Portraits

on May 24th 2011 with 10 comments
This entry is part 4 of 14 in the Portraits Session
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Over a year ago, we featured a collection of beautiful female portraits. Today, we flip the switch and showcase some striking male portraits. Hopefully they will inspire you to go out and shoot your own portrait or those of other people. Feel free to share your photos in the comments!

Portrait photography can be difficult, but very rewarding. The great thing is that you can experiment with long exposure, short exposures, different apertures, lighting and much more. In today’s roundup, I have found images from many different photographers each with very different styles, enjoy!

Before we start, you make sure you check out last year’s collection of female portraits here.

50 Magnificent Male Portraits

My Own Personal Maze Of Torment

Crouching Tiger

Bulgarian Male Portrait

Portrait #124

Ski Jump

Tombstone BASE jump

Head

Radio Alegria

Self Portrait

Peter

Burn The Sky

Ricci – Shelter From The Storm

Football Portrait

Paul: Maniacal

Me

Smoke Ghost

Amon Amarth IV

Self Portrait

BMX rider

Portrait by Daniel Sadlowski

Self Portrait

Self portrait – Speed Photo

Starstruck

Burned

Self Portrait

Whats Next?

Riley

Brady Kiesel

The Hunter

Outstretched

Mannequin

HAHAHAHA

Apart from the expression, another thing what makes this shot stand out is that you can clearly see the reflection of the photographer standing on a boat.

Portrait in B&W

Down the line

The Wizard

My Flickr Face

The Usual Suspects

Impact

Mr Robert

Band of Horses

Chris

Lomo Portrait

Construction Worker Portrait

Hide Face

Irradiated

3-spoked love [24/365]

Rett, as the Dude Weather guy

I DREAMED A DREAM ;-)

Self Portrait – High Key

Self portrait in metal

More Examples from previous roundups

50+ Stunning Portraits & Still Life Images Using One Light

100 Seriously Cool Self-Portraits (And Tips to Shoot Your Own!)

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Quick Tip: Simple Portrait Photography Tricks

Well Thanks For Reading!

I hope you enjoyed looking through these images, and please make sure you comment on the original photographer’s photos as well!

Feel free to share links to other inspiring images – your own, or other’s – in the comments.

 
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  • http://www.rohanthacker.cz.cc Rohan Thacker

    Some really cool images here. :D

    I tried my hand at self portraits. Please tell me what you think!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohant/5693507771/in/photostream

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohant/5669124385/in/photostream

  • http://flic.kr/p/9GsoLS Miguel Da Silva
  • otomo

    What a portrait really is:

    A portrait is 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. (source:wikipedia)

    50% percent of your images here are not portraits.

    And maybe only 10% of them I would call “magnificent”.

    • y0te

      Holy crap! Someone’s breaking the rules! Quick! Call the art police! [/sarcasm]

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/christianfrarey/ Christian Frarey
  • http://www.17ps8.com peter

    handsome men

  • Toby Madrigal

    Traditionally, most photographic activity involved the female of the species. To most photographers, especially amateurs, taking pix of men was taboo as the photographer would be perceived as homosexual!
    Now we live in an era when men can (almost) get married to each other, barriers and silly taboos are being broken down. Professional photographers have shown the way and, hopefully, even some amateurs will come out of the darkroom and admit that taking pix of men is rewarding. Me? as an openly gay man of 40 have always enjoyed pointing my lens at really interesting-looking guys of all ages. Note that I say interesting-looking guys – I’ steer clear of ‘pretty young men’ as it’s character I look for in a subject.

  • Francis

    I loved many of these. I love detail and eye language
    most enjoyable to learn so much from the Master

  • erika arango

    lovely!

  • http://www.wix.com/simonabarbu1/simonabarbuphotography Simona Dumitru

    I do not usually take male pictures as I usually avoid taking portrait pictures.

    But during a photography class, I took this picture.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/createsimona/4381839079/in/set-72157604214915545