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From: "Sunny Chung"
Subject: Help on Senior Portrait
Well, my friends have begun to recognize that I take good pictures...
and that my camera is much sweeter than theirs :-)
I've been asked to take some senior portraits of my friend's brother
who is graduating this year. I've never done this before, and am not
quite sure how to approach this. There aren't very many impressive
backgrounds around us. Should I go indoors our outdoors?
Outdoors will probably work better, natural light combined with some fill
flash can be quite nice.
Don't worry about backgrounds, anything that doesn't draw attention to
itself will work fine. Use as wide an aperture as possible to keep the
backgrounds out of focus.
Do this at the expense of ultimate subject sharpness is you need to.
Just make sure you are in focus.
For posing, if you haven't done this sort of thing before, don't try to rock
anyone's world with your cleverness.
Look at a few sample of this sort of work (google your subject and see what
you can find) and take it from there.
The only other portrait I've done is of my sister:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/26046302/
and it was a very spontaneous shot. Any advice on posing, lighting,
etc.. etc.. would be very helpful.
The background is too in focus, and whatever is on the right side is kinda
intrusive.
William Robb
