Friday, May 04, 2007
More Advice From The Internet : Candid Photography
Ahh, DigitialPhotographySchool, your advice is concise and clear and open-ended as always. Good job!
Taking candid photos is a great skill. I for one (many people feel this way, I think) have a really hard time making a smile look natural at all if I'm not actually laughing/smiling already, and I look stupid in most pictures. I ALWAYS look better in more candid shots when there's no one standing there saying "Smile!". But it's hard to take shots like that sometimes.
I like the advice in this article. A few I thought were esp effective:
Taking candid photos is a great skill. I for one (many people feel this way, I think) have a really hard time making a smile look natural at all if I'm not actually laughing/smiling already, and I look stupid in most pictures. I ALWAYS look better in more candid shots when there's no one standing there saying "Smile!". But it's hard to take shots like that sometimes.
I like the advice in this article. A few I thought were esp effective:
- Telephoto : a good long range lens will get you out of someone's face and into the background, shielding you from the posing effect I mentioned above. I'm not a photographer, but I would think that this type of lens would be a necessary piece of equipment for any wedding/event photographer.
- Shooting people together : putting two people who are engaged in some activity/conversation or another into the same frame really does make them seem more real, and the picture more candid. Esp when you're shooting kids.
- Hi-jack the posing : taking pictures of people while someone else is trying to line up a posed shot! What a great idea! The subjects are all together, making it easy to get them all 1into the frame at once, but they're not looking at you at all and instead are focused on the other photographer. Sweet!
