Currently I think a lot about portraits, because it is one of my targets in 2007 to do better portraits by myself.
So I cannot resist to link again to Jen Bekman’s Blog, where Joerg Colberg provides one more time a nice article about portraits.
This time he simple asked the photographers from the show “A New American Portrait” about their favourite portraits.
I specially like a quote from Brian Ulrich:
“I can tell you that one of the most amazing things in the world is to watch someone from behind the camera as they sit, still and motionless in a frozen stance you may or may not have dictated for them. I myself have bad habits that contribute to this obsessiveness. I count lines in people’s face, take notes on fingernails in trains, and generally look for visual clues that might be helpful at some point for a picture, other times just curiosity.”
