Simple principles, really. If you are not aware, I am teaching a university class these days. Photography, of course, the only thing for which I’d be remotely qualified.
These are principles we have not even gotten CLOSE to covering – mostly shutter speed / aperture / ISO relationship and other basics.
So, sporadically through the next few weeks/months, I’ll be making it a point to do share something specific about my photography that I do regularly that – maybe – you haven’t thought of before. It might help. It might not.
But for what its worth, its here.
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“Make Lot’s o’ Photos”
Now, if I went out, made a single portrait and, “Yep, done! Next?” my editor would hurt me. When I say “make lots o’ photos” I don’t mean just wail away at the same subject in the exact same position, same pose, same look, same light, etc. I mean: make lots of photos with lots of options.
In the case of the lovely Jordan…
There’s a vertical. And here…
…is a horizontal. Then…
…here’s a background change for some variety because there wasn’t time enough for a wardrobe change.
Okay, so… if you didn’t catch it, this is a bit of a trick question. But it makes my point even more clearly: all three of these images are considered the same “facing” – she’s facing to the right side of the frame.
There’s also a whole entire set of all of these facing to the left. If you look at the variety ratio, there’s maybe 5 photos of each pose facing each way in each position – maybe 50 photos total – but the variety is what we’re going for.
The editor is happy, the subject has time to relax, and good images are the result. Above all, that’s the goal…
Stay tuned…
-Noah D.
