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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
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This picture illustrates another important point:
take fun shots! To capture this magical moment
for me, I set up my camera and handed it over to
one of the workshop participants, Deborah Sand-
idge. I asked her to shoot tight, following yet an-
other one of my photo philosophies: “The name
of the game is to fill the frame.”
Go Interactive
When you share your pictures with your subjects,
you make your photo sessions more fun and in-
teractive. After all, who does not like seeing their
pictures? That especially goes for the Himba, who
live in a relatively remote part of Namibia.
Share your pictures, and you’ll see how easy it is to
make new friends.
276 Epilog
CS3 black-and-white (AdjustmentsBlack and
White) and sepia (ActionsSepia Toning) ver-
sions, too.
When you previsualize the end result, you’ll see
more creatively—and you may take a picture that
you normally would not have taken.
OK, enough reading for now. Good luck on your
assignment—and with all of your photography.
Envision the End Result
For me, digital photography is often a 50-50 deal:
50% image capture, 50% digital darkroom work.
I always try to envision the end result, trying to
imagine how adjustments and enhancements in
Photoshop can be used creative ...
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