EXAMPLE: "Cuba Gallery"- Portraiture

This year, I've been telling myself to try and work more on people-photos whenever the opportunity presents itself, because last year a very large majority of my work consisted of closeup, often abstract photos of objects that often involved small depth-of-field and vivid colors and textures. That is all fine and good, but it gets old after a while, and so I decided that people would be an interesting topic to branch out to, because they show emotion- unlike rulers and grass- and are very grounded and physical.

I recently found a great group of photos on Flickr by a user identified as "Cuba Gallery."
They tend to portray subjects who fill a good amount of the frame, and who are usually looking very pensive. They also all have a very interesting vintage faded look that is oh-so-popular among hipsters. Quite cool stuff.

The gallery: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=portrait&w=36587311%40N08

Sample photos below:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/4800429125/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/3391067011/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/4242142819/