Hi everyone
So how do I get over my fear of people photography?
Macro, landscape and wildlife are my favourite and most explored genres. I've won a couple of local competitions and although not spectacular, consider myself a fairly competent photographer.
There's something about people photography though that just sets it apart from other genre. Where one can marvel at a well taken wildlife or landscape image, I feel one can connect to a far greater extent to a good portrait. An expression, an emotion captured I feel transcends just a visual pay off.
Well, that's my theory anyway.
I've also got some okay kit to do some portraiture. I reckon with my 6D, 24-70, 70-200 and 600RT-EX, maybe even my 50mm f/1.8ii, I have competent gear for it.
Except I lose all confidence when faced with the prospect of having a person or persons in front of my lens. I have this illogical fear that I'm going to take the absolute worst photos possible and tend to avoid putting people in front of my lens. I would just hate to be responsible for taking shitty pics of a memorable day.
Part of the issue is not fully understanding what I can accomplish with a single flash unit, both indoors and out. I also feel shy when having to pose my model, mainly because I think my interaction can be the cause of a model not translating well into my photos.
Can anybody offer me some advice or experiences on how to overcome this please? I really want to add portraiture to my body of work.
I'd highly appreciate any help
Thanks everybody
So how do I get over my fear of people photography?
Macro, landscape and wildlife are my favourite and most explored genres. I've won a couple of local competitions and although not spectacular, consider myself a fairly competent photographer.
There's something about people photography though that just sets it apart from other genre. Where one can marvel at a well taken wildlife or landscape image, I feel one can connect to a far greater extent to a good portrait. An expression, an emotion captured I feel transcends just a visual pay off.
Well, that's my theory anyway.
I've also got some okay kit to do some portraiture. I reckon with my 6D, 24-70, 70-200 and 600RT-EX, maybe even my 50mm f/1.8ii, I have competent gear for it.
Except I lose all confidence when faced with the prospect of having a person or persons in front of my lens. I have this illogical fear that I'm going to take the absolute worst photos possible and tend to avoid putting people in front of my lens. I would just hate to be responsible for taking shitty pics of a memorable day.
Part of the issue is not fully understanding what I can accomplish with a single flash unit, both indoors and out. I also feel shy when having to pose my model, mainly because I think my interaction can be the cause of a model not translating well into my photos.
Can anybody offer me some advice or experiences on how to overcome this please? I really want to add portraiture to my body of work.
I'd highly appreciate any help
Thanks everybody