Practicing Portraiture Setup. I belong to a Photography Meetup in Munich, and Sunday was our day to practice taking portraits. It was a fun group of amateurs giving each other ideas, tips, and feedback. This was taken moments before the restaurant owner came out and was angry for us using his table and chairs without asking -- but the restaurant was clearly not open during the day and there was nobody there to ask! He thought we were professionals (ha!) and although we explained, we decided to leave because he was so angry with us. The restaurant borders a beautiful public park so we moved over to the park side.
It would be a tough job, to "relax" when the lenses are pointing right at you. What a wonderful learning opportunity! I enjoy how you captured the photographer's intensity on his subject.
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Thanks for your comments! I added to the comment above about how we were basically kicked out of this place. But I wanted this photo to document what we were doing. It's also fun to look at photographer's poses. Here, he's clearly using his legs to adjust height. In my case, I'm so short that when I had a standing model, he bent his knees so I could make a portrait of his head/shoulders at my own eye level. Fellow photographer models will do that. Another photographer I wanted to capture seemed to have a golfer/bowler mindset for "follow through? as his leg/body/arms were always in a beautifully arced line toward the subject. FUN event!
@joansmor@seanna -- It's such fun to be part of a group, for sure! And because I expressed interest in how one of the group members does these cool 360 degree panoramas, he's hosting a group lesson on it for 5 people next week before I leave!
Thanks for your comments! I added to the comment above about how we were basically kicked out of this place. But I wanted this photo to document what we were doing. It's also fun to look at photographer's poses. Here, he's clearly using his legs to adjust height. In my case, I'm so short that when I had a standing model, he bent his knees so I could make a portrait of his head/shoulders at my own eye level. Fellow photographer models will do that. Another photographer I wanted to capture seemed to have a golfer/bowler mindset for "follow through? as his leg/body/arms were always in a beautifully arced line toward the subject. FUN event!