It's a good article in that it stresses the importance of connection with the subject, however I don't think that the technicalities and the interpersonal relationship between the subject and photographer are mutually exclusive, depending on the shooting environment of course.
I shoot a lot of live events these days, often something akin to live portraiture, that's an interesting twist because the artist is playing to the audience. My job is to attempt to capture the expressions of the artist on stage particularly when I see them slip out of performer mode and show that they are really loving what they are doing up there. And often when I connect with the same people one to one to shoot them in a studio environment we have an instant rapport built in part through my live images which makes the shoot far less staid and leads to more natural poses and expressions. And if the shoot has been properly designed and not rushed the resultant images often also exhibit excellent technical quality too. The worst shoots I have been involved in were at studio workshops where the lighting was pre-set and near to perfect but the models came thick and fast. It's like a sausage factory, one model after another, one set then the next. I found that the quality of my images suffer terribly if I have no time to connect with the models, technically they may be flawless but they lack emotion and substance. The last thing is that it's so easy to get caught up in the low noise, high d-range, low ISO roundabout, some of my best and most appreciated pics were shot at very high ISOs and suffer motion blur and boulder sized noise but the punters just don't care for the most part they only see the content in the image. I have given up trying to please photographers and it has let me make so many more images that I can say that I'm now truly happy with. Cheers, On 15 March 2014 01:14, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > An important lesson to learn ... > > http://fstoppers.com/subject-matters-kicking-technicalities-for-content > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
