Taking a portrait that's tightly cropped or slightly obscured

- We came out here to do some portraits.…Now a lot of times when you think,…oh, someone in the family wants a portrait,…or I'm in a beautiful location,…I'm gonna take a picture of somebody,…you probably find some nice light,…line up a good shot, pay a little bit of attention…to your background, maybe think about depth of feel,…and get something like this, a very nice portrait.…Maybe you're feeling a little more daring,…and you get a little closer.…You understand that you don't have to show…a person's whole face,…and so maybe you get something like this.…Also a nice portrait.…But don't stop there.…

These are nice representational portraits,…but it's really fascinating to start treating…a portrait as a landscape.…Do the same thing you would do in a landscape photo,…and start working the landscape of your subject's face.…I'm shooting right now with a Canon 100mm F/2.8 macro.…That lets me get very, very close and crop really tight,…and by really tight, I mean really tight.…I'm gonna go right in here to her eyes.…Stop down my aperture to buy myself a little more…