Today’s Post by Blue Moon Staff
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shooting images outdoors provides an opportunity to be creative about where and when you shoot. You should look for places that will accommodate to a client’s needs, not just photographically but comfort as well. That’s why private locations for intimate portraiture are best. Sometime the location and the subject’s clothing—or lack thereof—dictate a pose. The right locations provides where a natural-looking place where the subject can pose and be comfortable at the same time.
One of the positive aspects of outdoor portraiture—including intimate portraits such the one above—is that there’s always something for the subject to interact with.
On a movie studio in Phoenix, I told the subject to get comfortable, the rest was her interpretation. The point of any pose, especially in intimate portraiture, it to start with an idea, give an instruction to the subject, watch what happens, and then improve on what the photographer sees.
How I Made this Portrait: This is a totally available light portrait that was made with a Canon EOS D60—not an EOS 60D—DSLR with an EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 USM and USM II lens. Canon discontinued this useful lens but you can usually pick up used copies on Amazon or eBay for reasonable prices. Exposure was a 1/80 sec at f/4 and ISO 400.
That’s why during a shoot, I constantly let the subjects see what the images look like—on the camera’s LCD screen—so they understand the kind on images that are being captured. If they don’t like what they see, we try something else; if they like what they see we work on improving the portrait until its the best and the subject is their most beautiful.
