Lessons from the Scene: Mental Visualization by Ginny Felch

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by Ginny Felch, www.photographingchildren.com 
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This article is an excerpt from "Chapter 7: Evoking Expression and Emotion" of her book "Photographing Children" available from Wiley Publishing:
 

 

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As you look through photographs, whether they are your own family photographs, a friend’s collection, or even magazine images, you intuitively flip through them at a certain pace. Every so often you might come across one that stops you, slows you down, and invites you to explore or engage more deeply. It might make you smile, think for a minute, or take you back to a place in time. What a wonderful exercise this is to encourage your own observation skills and to see what pulls you in. The chances are very good that the photograph that stops you or slows you down contains something profound or alluring in the expression, mood, and emotion.
 

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If you have visited WeArePhotographers.com over the past few days, you have seen that we've got a brand new look.   We’re so happy to introduce Phase Two of the site that incorporates a lot of the feedback from our users over the past 7 1/2 months.  Also, underneath the covers we’ve moved the site to higher performance hardware, mitigating a few issues that occurred during unexpectedly high web traffic we received.   Thanks for giving us that problem to deal with!

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If you’ve got one chance to get it right…don’t mess it. Kevin Vandivier had a shoot to get a skydiver jumping out of a perfectly good a bi-plane. The concept is to show the skydiver doing what skydivers do…taking that first BIGGG step in the wild blue yonder.

Lessons from the Scene: Different Visions by Ginny Felch

 

by Ginny Felch, www.photographingchildren.com 
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This article is an excerpt from "Chapter 6: What's your style?" of her book "Photographing Children" available from Wiley Publishing:
 
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If you asked ten different photographers to photograph the same child in the same setting, you would have ten different interpretations of that same child. Just as the children you photograph, each photographer is unique in his or her view of the world. Some bring a fresh, hip perspective to their work with children, while others prefer to capture childhood in a more timeless, less trendy fashion.
 
What is your style? Do you have one yet? While most photographic work can’t simply be slotted into one category or another, it is helpful to make some broad generalizations when you’re starting out to give you a point of departure for your own work.