Re: Advice on taking portraits in black and white?
- From: "Douglas" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:11:41 GMT
"Frank ess" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: One ploy I've used in life as well as photography ( analyze that! ) is
: to divert attention to something that is a common problem, common to
: the principals involved. In this case, perhaps the camera isn't
: cooperating. You don't seem to be able to get it to go off when it
: should, or it seems to want to point somewhere you don't want it to.
: Talk to the camera, make it obvious you are soliciting suggestions,
: help, salvation, from the subjects.
:
: With the subjects' involvement comes unselfconsciousness. During your
: sham or charade, you'll be taking pictures of their irritated,
: concerned, considering, concentrating faces, and when you declare
: victory, their satisfied, jubilant faces.
:
: Sometimes a photographer (or liver of life) has to be an actor, must
: be able to tolerate-indeed, seek- the spotlight, in order to
: photograph (experience) behaviors in the near-dark periphery.
:
: --
: Frank ess
:
Deep stuff, Mate!
.
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