10 Tips for Shooting Stock Photos That Make Art Directors Happy
10. Keep it real.
Have your talent save the bad acting for soap operas. Honest, genuine expressions, please. Real moments where you catch people with their guards down are far more appealing than the shiny happy people R.E.M. sang about.
Basic Rules for Bad Stock
1. Always include at least one minority
2. Always have both sexes represented – unless it’s a photo about homosexuality, in which case both people MUST be touching eachother.
3. If you doubt your fashion sense, open a Seventeen magazine circa 1992 and dress them in anything (and everything) you see.
4. If it [...]
random links i found, more abstract and philosophical than about technique.
Triumph and tragedy: the camera captures politicians
Doyle Comes to Town
Photography can make leaders – or bring them down. Germaine Greer on image, power and paranoia
the majority…. no, all of the photos i’ve been taking of my nonprofit’s events for the past year and almost a half, it’s involved taking photos of a variety of people at podiums. the same podium, for 3 hours straight, one person after the other coming up and standing behind it, hunched over [...]
i photographed two events for my nonprofit late last year. i had a lot of really good photos, from those, but i realized after looking at the photos that i was on a weird perspective kick at the time. trying out different perspectives (everything coming at you at crazy, unexpected angles) is a [...]
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