It's not that I think they're all especially wonderful or anything, but they keep stuck in my mind. I can't shake them. I realize looking back on it that I really enjoyed it, and that's why they're stuck. I liked setting up the camera, I liked getting the backgrounds ready and switching them around. It was just... fun!
I will tell you I'm rather surprised some of the people there let me do it. Aside from maybe one or two friends who seem to enjoy me taking their pictures, most seem... uninterested at the best and somewhat annoyed at the worst.Here I had a group of friends and a group of complete strangers and a group of mostly strangers. Aside from Phil (who I ended up getting through trickery) everyone agreed to have their picture taken. Some like Chad didn't look terribly impressed, but everyone else seemed to honestly enjoy it!
I think it's true what they say, that deep down everyone likes having their picture taken.
So with my having enjoyed it so much (and the people who I took the pictures of, they enjoyed it too. About half of them now use the portraits I took as their facebook profile pictures) I wonder what I will do next.
If I am going to take pictures of people in some sort of organized setting, what could I do? Not the colour background again since that has already been done (though I really really enjoyed it despite the final product looking something like glee), and I don't feel comfortable yet dealing with people who I don't know at all at all (friends of friends is fine.)
So what do I do?
I like taking photos of people too, and its true, a lot of people love having their photo taken (me included!).
ReplyDeleteI've found that festivals and other events are good occasions to take really cool portraits of people. For example, I volunteered with the city of Ottawa's annual Halloween event, where people come dressed up. There's lots of people wandering around with cameras, and it's REALLY EASY to get people to pose for you. There's lots of great festivals that happen in Ottawa, especially in the summer, and I find they are ripe with opportunity for portraits!
I've also found that nature makes a good backdrop for portraits, but not sure how you'd get people to come along with you for something like that. If you have other friends who are into photography (or just enjoy modelling) maybe set up a photo expedition? I have a good friend who I randomly go on photo expeditions with; we both like taking photos and we both like modelling for photos, so it's a really good set up!
Anyway, that's everything I can think of! Hah, hope it helped?
Btw, do you have a Flickr account?
I'd still love to grab you for some cosplay photoshooting one of these days, if you'd be up for it. :D
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