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Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People
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Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People

by Rick Sammon
May 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
304 pages
6h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People
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I’d like to share with you two of my all-time-
favorite people pictures: a portrait of a young
girl whom I photographed in Bhutan and a
picture of three girls whom I photographed in
Costa Rica. What I like about these pictures is
the direct eye contact the subjects are making
with my camera—and with me. Connect with
your subjects, and your pictures will connect
with those who view them.
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Some even share the same sense of humor. Under-
stand our global culture, and you’ll know, some-
what, what to expect when you go on location in
a foreign land.
Understand your subject, and you’ll gain some in-
sight into the soul of your subject, and the soul of
the photographer—your soul.
And speaking of understanding, to gain a better
understanding of how your lens choice and expo-
sure settings affect a picture, check out the Tech-
nical Table pdf located on this book’s catalog page
on the website www.oreilly.com. It includes tech
data for the images on the following pages, along
with information on where they were taken.
Catch you later!
Rick Sammon —
Croton-on-Hudson, New York
March 2008
Next let’s check out two portraits I took in Africa.
Both women were photographed in the door-
way of their ...
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