Thursday 13 December 2012

Dos and Don'ts of Working with a Model

For this assignment, I took pictures of my little sister, Katie.


DON'T chop off the head in a full body shot:


























DO chop off the head in a close up:


























DON'T crop below the knees:


























DO crop above the knees:





















DON'T crop below the elbows:


























DO crop above the elbows:


























DON'T crop too close to the eyebrows:


























DO crop away from the eyebrows:


























DON'T cut off the ears:


























DO keep the ears in the frame:


























DON'T shoot up the nose:


























DO angle the head downwards:


























DON'T turn sideways so the arm disappears:


























DO turn so that both arms are in the frame:


























DON'T always shoot at face level:


















DO get higher or stand on something for an interesting angle: