From the course: Learning Portrait Photography
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Tips for helping people look great
From the course: Learning Portrait Photography
Tips for helping people look great
- Before I begin photographing somebody, especially someone for a professional headshot, we wanna talk about the goal of a photograph with them. If it's a headshot we probably want to show some personality but with specific traits, something like confidence, approachability, integrity, trustworthiness. The last thing they probably wanna show is goofiness, and so if I bring my attitude of photographing children, where I'm excited and going for laughs with the kid, if I bring that to a professional headshot, I'm probably going to illicit the wrong kind of emotion and expression from people. So I wanna be sure to have a conversation about what goals we have for a photograph with my subject before we start shooting. This not only gives me the right idea for a picture, but it helps my subjects understand that I'm concerned about what they need, and that I understand their needs. And that helps them feel better about being in a picture with me. Most people don't like being in pictures and…
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