Practicing Portraiture. It's those details that escape us when practicing -- like how is it that he's holding his glasses in his right hand when we worked so hard to get the left hand placed well??? So many details to get right. This was a Photo Meetup outing and we were told to bring props to practice with so people brought a variety of hats, mirrors, reflectors, etc. We broke into groups of 3-4 so one had to pose, one photographed, and one to be assistant. The challenge here was the angle at which I had to stand in order to not get a big shade across his face from the hat; thus, the title of this six word story.
You have a good pose there and great light! It's a whole lot harder than you thought, isn't it? Every time I think I have a good shot I see something that I overlooked!
It looks good to me but like you I have problems in posing a model fir a portrait! I find it hard to make people I don't know relax. I loved it when I did a portrait course but it was a professional model posing wh9 knew what she was doing. As soon as I try with ordinary people I have problems. This is why I don't do portraits for a living!
We had someone come into Camera Club and explain the hard things about portraiture - getting the subject relaxed, and dealing with their hands! I think it is really hard, and you've done a fine job.
@cgribben -- It IS hard, but because we worked in groups, I learned from others what to say to get the model in pose, and relaxed. @pamknowler -- this was a group member and not a model, but certainly one who knew how to relax and pose in front of a camera! @888rachel -- it's the fact that he had two hands that caused this problem - I could see that a group member had him put one hand on his hat, but nobody checked the other hand. @agedrunner@taffy@fntngrma - thanks for your comments. That relaxed look is harder than it looks -- and some of us freeze up more than others. We were told to continue talking to model while photographing, and to try not to break the flow by constantly checking the images of what we took.
@pamknowler -- this was a group member and not a model, but certainly one who knew how to relax and pose in front of a camera!
@888rachel -- it's the fact that he had two hands that caused this problem - I could see that a group member had him put one hand on his hat, but nobody checked the other hand.
@agedrunner @taffy @fntngrma - thanks for your comments. That relaxed look is harder than it looks -- and some of us freeze up more than others. We were told to continue talking to model while photographing, and to try not to break the flow by constantly checking the images of what we took.