Smile
Posted on Nov 21st, 2011 in 5D MKii, Canon, digital, editorial, film, Fuji, Kodak, P25+, Phase One, photography, Portra 400NC, x100 | 2 comments
Today over on A Photo Editor there’s a link to a Rodney Smith blog post about smiling in photos. Rodney doesn’t think smiling photos have substance. I don’t know that I agree with that, but I know I tend to like non-smiling photos. I have a total of seven on my entire website and only one in my portfolio (although it depends on what qualifies as a smile… there are some very slight smiles that I didn’t count). I tend to take things a bit further though… It seems I don’t even like people looking at the camera.
I posted about this a year ago, but looking over recent shoots I think I’m getting worse. I routinely choose the photos where the subject isn’t looking at the camera (I will say, the client rarely chooses those). I keep wondering what this says about myself.
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I like those, too.
You are on the same page as the DMV as you aren’t allowed to smile in your driver’s license picture anymore!
You should look into getting your artwork featured on WallFood.com!