Kate, like most people, doesn’t like the way she looks on camera. Like most people, she’s wrong.
Four portraits of Kate (one)
Kate, like most people, doesn’t like the way she looks on camera. Like most people, she’s wrong.
Four portraits of Kate (one)
I really like this shot.
I can empathize with not-liking how one looks on camera or in photographs — I think it’s something most of us experience. But you have a gift for helping the people you’re photographing feel comfortable enough to actually look like themselves, instead of putting on the bizarre unconscious half-poses most of us seem to internalize somewhere along the way.
Thanks, but that’s more credit than I deserve: mostly it’s just that I’ve learned the trick of taking pictures when people aren’t expecting them, so they have their real faces on instead of their camera faces. Portrait outtakes are always so much better than the actual portraits.
(One of my nieces has started doing that thing where she’s got the exact same fixed self-conscious smile in every photo; I really wish there were some way to let her know she’d look better if she just didn’t try so hard, without making her even more self-conscious in the process….)
Beautiful!!!
Reminder to both of us: this week, help me actually get logged in to this site. I think perhaps it’s a PICNIC, but nonetheless….
(Also, did I leave my camera battery charger somewhere in your bag?)
I see no battery charger in my bag, but that doesn’t rule out it being elsewhere in the house.
Looks like you either haven’t created an account here, or like there’s a bug in the CMS preventing you from doing so. Which is pretty likely — for a supposed software professional, I’ve done a surprisingly crappy job getting all the bits and pieces of this site working together.