That is good information, Marnie. Thanks. My instructor told us the same thing, unless we're going for a "powerful" look to the subject. I had to keep reminding myself to stay above Jocelyn (*ahem*). It turns out that I forgot for this photo.
Perhaps I'm subconsciously positioning her as the more powerful role in our relationship. :) Thanks again for your thoughts. Mike On 10/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 10/2/2006 8:26:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I've since taken everyone's suggestions to heart and sharpened the > eyes a bit to bring them out. I also reduced the appearance of the > labret scar. Sadly, there was no PS tool to raise the height of my > camera in relation to the subject... ;) > ========= > BTW, Mike, another thought. > > Our instructor (a B&W guy who had done a LOT of photography, and I thought he > was pretty darn good), said take women from slightly above and men from > slightly below. Can't remember if that was from slightly above eye level or > top of > head or what. Probably eye level. > > He said it plays into our traditional expectation that men are taller and > women are shorter. I really questioned him about that quite a bit because it > sounded kind of, cough, sort of sexist to me. > > But he said if it is reversed it always seems to bother people -- maybe just > on a subconscious level if they don't really consciously it -- because it goes > against expectations. So he's found it's just better to do it that way and > not go against expectations. IE. People aren't bothered. When he put it like > that, I sort of bought it. > > Anyway, that may come into play here. Don't know about the eye focus thing, I > didn't look at your photo that hard, but think about the rest. > > HTH, Marnie aka Doe :-) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- -- Remember to Breathe -- MichaelHamilton.ca -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
