Photographic differences

May 1st, 2007

In some respects there is not a huge difference between my landscape photography and my portrait photography – both are outdoors, both involve me shooting in all weathers, and both have me shooting a collection of images.

The trick I’d missed with my portrait clients is pointing out to them that I do shoot a collection of images.  The expectation that they’ll just need one photograph probably has a lot to do with school photos.  You just got one – you never saw the others taken - usually they only had time to shoot one anyway.

So my ‘Ah ha’ moment was understanding that what I do is very bespoke – I can be photographing my clients for up to three hours (with breaks!) and during that time I’m really trying to capture them. Not as I see them, but as they are. It becomes a story of our time together, and that is best told as a collection of images.

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