or glass windows, or car windshield can add context and interest. So can "shooting through" foreground objects with wide open aperture (here f2.8).
Hug me!
Just a little tearing ... a heartfelt hug. Is this a good hug?
Tuning The Wind Dreams
A moment to tune, catching a moment, imagining imaginings ... still photography
Looking Up Two
In this group shot I stood higher by about 4 steps. At a greater distance (i.e., a longer lens), the looking up to the lens is more subtle and still pleasing. What do you think?
Baltimore, Maryland, 2012
Looking Up One
By standing on steps or a step ladder I can ask my clients to look up to the lens, creating a pleasing portrait, similar to the eye level, direct gaze approach (see 6/28/13 example).
Annapolis, Maryland, 2012
Direct Three
Sometimes a direct, eye level gaze from your pet can result in a fun portrait, but you have to get low to the ground or put your pet in a higher place than you. A treat in your pocket helps.
Kadie, 2005
Direct Two
Again eye level and direct. A pair of direct staring portraits hung in a Pilates Studio for two weeks in 2008 until some of the clients asked that they be replaced by something less intense, like landscapes. Do you like a direct gaze portrait?
Marciac, France, 2007
Look Up
Chili pepper in New Mexico café, 2007
Joe Franchi, my best friend in 4th grade, was taught by his step mom not to look down while walking. I was taught to stand up straight by my grandfather but looking all around was OK.
One day on a walk with Joe I was looking down and found a $20 bill (~$100 today) in the grass along a chain link fence.
In recent years in a New Mexico café I looked up and saw hanging chili peppers.
I have lost touch with Joe Franchi and my grandfather died many years ago. Each day I try to look up and down and all around.