The Studio Bulletin is BACK! Here is the latest Studio Bulletin featuring Elaine Sheppard’s visit…
To most photographers their camera is their pride and joy giving as much pleasure to some as cars do to others.
But is you camera really the secret to success?
Or is it your biggest enemy?
Of course you must learn your camera craft and know how to get the best out of it but never forget that to your subjects it is an object that creates apprehension at the least and fear at the worst. People do not like being photographed often comparing the process to going to the dentist!
The skill of a Portrait photographer is to get the subject to forget they are being taken and get their minds onto something else. The best lighting set up, brilliant posing etc will not ensure a great portrait. For that you have to get a great expression and the camera can often prevent that being achieved.
In a portrait expression is everything. One of the Secrets of Success.
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Andrew Coe
Andrew Coe is great grandson of Albert Edward Coe who founded the Coe photography businesses 150 years ago. He is recognised as one of the leading teachers of wedding and portrait photography in the UK having been commissioned by City & Guilds to write the first module for the Higher National NVQ Diploma in Portrait in this field. He has also been commissioned to give seminars in New York, Las Vegas, Madrid, Cologne and many other international venues. He owns the franchise for the largest group of wedding and portrait studios in the UK which has photography contracts with many national retailers and other major brand names. He founded the first chain of one hour mini labs in the UK (all with wedding and portrait studios attached), the largest advertising and commercial studio in East Anglia, a leading professional colour lab and has trained more people to become full time photographers than anyone else in the UK.
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