Everyone, Pick your toes! Posted by: Barb Gordon |

Everyone, Pick your toes!

Posted by: Barb Gordon | 

Well, almost everyone. Who knew all these toes would turn out so cute. I guess next time I might try asking everyone to touch their toes to see what would happen. This actually was just a natural moment, the truly best images. When I photograph children especially, I try not to over coach them. Sometimes you miss beautiful natural images when you try and ask for too much or try to control the session too tightly.
When you are photographing portraits, take a moment to grab some images that are parts of the scene like I did with these guys’ little feet. Images of just an ear, just a hand, or the back of a head are all parts of the story. You may not even “feel it” but to a mom all of the parts are wonderful and will pull at her heartstrings.
I can relate to this a photo session I had of my husband and I on our farm just shortly after I had finished chemo treatments. One of the images was cropped just to my Labrador with my arms around him. To most people, not an award winning image, but to me, it was a heart tugging favorite and taught me a lesson to photograph more parts of images for my clients.