I think you're very probably correct but my experience in doing family
portraiture (and especially larger groups) is that it you don't capture
it in the first minute or two you're unlikely to get it right at all.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/29/2012 11:20 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 8:50 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> Should be available to everyone. Three photos. I'm not sure the right and
>> left indicator shows, but if you click on the right or left side of the
>> photo, it should take you to the next one.
>>
>> WARNING: Serious Señorita Images!!
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/cb6uldx
>
> The technical part of these images is wonderful, lighting, movement, and so
> on. The sepia half light one is sneakily
> very good.
>
> What needs to happen is for her to loosen up her face. Whether she's
> naturally tense, nervous in front of the camera,
> tense about creating/holding poses or whatever, her smiles look tight and
> forced, where they would be so much more
> appealing loose and natural.
>
> Makes me understand at least one reason all the movie/TV portrayals of
> fashion photogs taking endless shots while
> getting the models moving endlessly. Maybe it's not about endless variations
> of pose, but about getting them to forget
> to 'pose', and get into their natural body postures and relaxed facial
> expressions.
>
> Somewhere, I read, or maybe saw a video, about a famous portrait photographer
> who dry fired for the first couple of
> 'rolls', because experience had shown him that there was never anything
> worthwhile on them anyway.
>
> Sounds like she is comfortable with you, but perhaps not yet with the camera
> - or with her own body/self in 'public' in
> a way that's new to her?
>
> Who Knows Moose
>
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