
I think of anything that I would like to master in photography is the art of the portrait. I'm not talking about those ridiculous portraits you get taken when you go to the super store and have the cheesy background of a fall scene with a wood fence and a bushel of apples and you want to be (or you TRULY are) convinced so bad that once the shutter button is pushed down on that camera, you will inevitably look as if you too were in Connecticut on a crisp fall morning picking those apples and frolicking in the Autumn leaves. Talk about your run-on sentences.
No, what I want is to be able to capture a person's face that may or may not capture the "truth" about that person. Like questions still linger and you thought you've pinpointed what the image is about and then, in a blink of an eye, you realize that you might not have drawn the right conclusion.
You've seen what I'm talking about...most notably to me, is the Mona Lisa. There is so much we don't know about her portrait and yet, upon further inspection, you wonder if you see a slight smile, you wonder who's balcony was she sitting on, you wonder why she forgot her mascara and her eyebrow pencil for such an important sit-in...oh, maybe I just wonder about that.



The eyes are what get me in any picture. The Pioneer Woman taught me that. I think you can get a great picture no matter what the subject is doing just as long as those eyes can "speak" to you.
So on that note, enjoy my virtual gallery showing what I have generously entitled "The Many Faces of Lawyer" or "From Willing Subject to Someone-Please-Remove-the-Apparatus-from-the-Woman's-Hand". I have decided to moderate from my perspective so please, humor me.






Photo #100: At this point, Lawyer went all Britney Spears on me and shaved his head and was beating me down with an umbrella. I guess a girl ought to know "when" with her camera.
PS: All photos have been messed with post-capture. And for some of those lit-up face looks, I actually made a homemade "reflector" out of foil and a cookie sheet...I need to get a life. And my child seriously thinks I've gone bananas. Good thing he likes bananas.
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