From: Phillip Murphy (pmurf@bellsouth.net)
Date: 01/02/03-07:33:27 PM Z
Hi Shannon,
Look for an essay by Edward Weston titled: Twenty-Five Years of Portraiture.
His method was so agile that at times the subject never realized that the
session
had begun, when it was in fact completed. Here's a guy who evolved from
winning
awards making soft focus and sometimes dream-like portraits to creating sharp
edge
and often Daguerreotype quality images that breathed much life. His method was
predominately psychological.
-Phillip
Shannon Stoney wrote:
> My New Year's resolution is to make better portraits. I was inspired by
> the Thomas Struth show last summer. I read somewhere that he simply asks
> his subjects to relax and look into the lens. I tried that today, but I
> haven't processed the negatives yet, so I don't know if it worked. (My
> partner also made many digital camera portraits of Sponge Bob Square Pants,
> in the form of a lollipop which was in my stocking.) Any other suggestions
> for helping people to relax and open up in front of a rather large camera?
>
> --shannon
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