Looking straight at the camera makes for a challenging portrait, in my view,
Chris. When I take portraits I try to get the head tilted and turned slightly
way. My students treat it as a joke when I ask for head movement, especially
as they all look straight at the camera, but they now know what to do . . .
Chris
On 10 Jun 2012, at 07:55, Chris Crawford wrote:
> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=1042
>
> This was a hard one. I had to shoot it under a tent at the park downtown
> where all the events and festivals are held in Fort Wayne. The white tent
> gave really beautiful soft light on this bright sunny day, but the tent has
> open sides , which would let the extremely bright sunlit background show. I
> stood my friend in front of the stage, so its pretty busy, but was the best
> background there. It took a lot of burning in of bright spots to balance the
> image, but I think I made her look pretty good considering the challenges of
> the site.
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