Hence there are plenty of opportunities to be caught in photographs that make "I never look good in photographs" a perfectly true statement. The result may be strong images, but not the type of images you would necessarily be proud of being in. There's a lot of that type of photographs around, and what's fundamentally wrong with them I'll get back to in a moment.īut also many professionals like to take incredible sharp photos of wrinkled people, or try to put sorrow or other emotions into people and situations, where such feelings actually does not exist. Whenever somebody drops the popcorn on the floor or tries to eat a real big burger, “friends” consider it a photo opportunity and take a photo for mutual "amusement". Yet so many pictures are taken and put on display that mock others. I can't think of any other reason to take a portrait of a person than to make that person happy about him self or her self. The reason is that you would only use a portrait of yourself if you really liked it. ![]() ![]() I have my own little secret statistic in that I find joy in each person who selects one of my portraits of them as their profile picture on Facebook. Instead I'll cut it into pieces so as to be able to entertain both of us with this subject over the coming weeks. It's actually a long story, and I won't make it short. In photographing portraits it's all about capturing the person herself or himself. A series about portraiture and life at large - Part II (Part I can be read here)
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