52. GESTURE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LOOKING AT EYES
SIMPLY BY LOOKING into another human’s eyes, one is reading a narrative (Figure 52.1).
Gesture, in this photographic sense, is that special way a person signals a message or an emotion through body language. Gesture can express joyfulness, sternness, or inquisitiveness, and it can make the subject appear intellectual, confident, or sultry. There’s really no end to the amount of information our body language can transmit to another, and it’s that special something we’re trying to capture in our portraits. No matter if it’s a corporate headshot that needs to express professionalism above all else, ...
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