Digital BW, The Print

Bernhard,

Glad to hear your package arrived safe-and-sound - and of course that you
liked my image ;)

As Tim suggests - give it a go - get friends and family to give you some
time and use up some film! I really like the simple studio-flash setup used
for that shot - but if you have no flash - try daylight.

As for telling the model how to pose, I don't to that too much - but I do
find that explaining to the person who is modelling for me what I am doing
"only your head and shoulders" or "you in the whole room" then I find that
helps them... I pretend like the camera is the annoying thing getting in the
way of our conversation ;)  All that of course only applies in a posed
situation, every other time you just got to know the people (I'm no street
photographer really!) - otherwise, just take the camera out on a family walk
or something.

Take care...

Nij



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernie Ess [mailto:albatros.bee@...]
>
>
> Nij,
> I received the photos today, thank you for the work you did for
> everybody...
>
> I like your portrait quite a bit, a very expressive female face..
> In fact -
> people is what I would also like to do more in the future, I am
> just not yet
> sure enough with the camera handling and shooting technique (also
> confidence) to shoot people, so for now I still do more non-
> human stuff :-)
>
> Greetings Bernhard
>
> P.S.: the germans - including me - have written the longest explanations -
> We talk too much... LOL !