Every time someone chooses one of my pictures as their facebook profile photo, it's a small stroke for my ego.
It's also interesting feedback on what people consider important in photos of themselves. The things which we, as photographers, consider important: focus, exposure, clarity in general, even composition seem to be almost irrelevant in comparison to capturing a particular moment, or mood. Granted, a technically good portrait will trump a cellphone camera and mirror photo, but it's the moment that seems to be the most important. As a portrait photographer, I've been finding that "the moment" is the hardest thing to create. When I did the set with Garry last week, getting him to tell stories seemed to help. With Gwen and Tiffany, having one friend take pictures of the other, let me take advantage of the chemistry they had with each other. These are things I discovered by accident, but hope to use in the future. I'm curious what other tricks people have used to "get the moment"? I forget who said it a couple weeks ago, but someone made a comment about the photograph not distracting from the subject, about my shots of the custom caddy. I'd like to thank them for that, because the more I think about it, the more important I realize that is. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen l...@red4est.com http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
