From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture

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Seizing golden opportunities

Seizing golden opportunities

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: Foundations of Portraiture

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Seizing golden opportunities

Some of the most exquisite and wonderful light of all time is that light that happens at the end of the day as the sun starts to set. It's that golden hour, it's that magic hour, and it's when everything really comes to life. And some of the most powerful photographs of all time are photographs of people. You bring those two things together and it happens. I mean that is it! Or is it? I have a photography student who was getting good, I mean he was taking some powerful portraits, and he was winning contests and his skill was just-- it was strong. He was creating portraits that had value, that had meaning, and he was taking a trip home, he was flying home to South Africa the visit with his family and he went home and one of his goals was to take a portrait of his dad and create a good portrait of him. He got back from his trip and one of his friends at Brooks said, "So did you get that picture of your dad?" He said, "No, I didn't the light was never right, it was never good enough" and…

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