Comments on: Photography Empathy: How You Feel Is What You Get http://rising.blackstar.com/photography-empathy-how-you-feel-is-what-you-get.html Professional Photography Blog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:56:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cathyhttp://rising.blackstar.com/photography-empathy-how-you-feel-is-what-you-get.html/comment-page-1#comment-66035 Cathy Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:32:25 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=1227#comment-66035 I had a comment on my website the other day saying that I have 'camera empathy with people'. Wondering what this meant I found the explanation here. It makes sense what you said because I use to be shy with the camera but now I just try to go for it and it shows. Check this out:http://wildscapephotos.com/?p=718#comment-92I had a great experience with the Pokot people in Kenya recently. Cathy I had a comment on my website the other day saying that I have 'camera empathy with people'. Wondering what this meant I found the explanation here. It makes sense what you said because I use to be shy with the camera but now I just try to go for it and it shows. Check this out:

http://wildscapephotos.com/?p=718#comment-92

I had a great experience with the Pokot people in Kenya recently.
Cathy

]]> By: Paul Dymondhttp://rising.blackstar.com/photography-empathy-how-you-feel-is-what-you-get.html/comment-page-1#comment-779 Paul Dymond Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:16:01 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=1227#comment-779 Interesting that you should write about that statement because for years I've been hearing about it but had never really understood it before. Rick Sammon made it so clear to me. The way my subjects viewed the camera was the way they viewed me, but more importantly, the way I viewed them and my relationship to them. As a travel photographer who often has the disadvantage of not speaking the language I was able to go back through some of my portrait images and look at the faces on the people and pretty much know exactly how I had approached them. Whether I had been confident and friendly, or whether I had appeared nervous and not quite sure of myself. It's a great statement and Rick explained it perfectly. Interesting that you should write about that statement because for years I've been hearing about it but had never really understood it before. Rick Sammon made it so clear to me. The way my subjects viewed the camera was the way they viewed me, but more importantly, the way I viewed them and my relationship to them.
As a travel photographer who often has the disadvantage of not speaking the language I was able to go back through some of my portrait images and look at the faces on the people and pretty much know exactly how I had approached them. Whether I had been confident and friendly, or whether I had appeared nervous and not quite sure of myself.
It's a great statement and Rick explained it perfectly.

]]> By: Pathttp://rising.blackstar.com/photography-empathy-how-you-feel-is-what-you-get.html/comment-page-1#comment-755 Pat Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:23:39 +0000 http://rising.blackstar.com/?p=1227#comment-755 That is an interesting idea, which I had never really thought about before. However on reflection I did a boudoir session recently and the lady bought her husband - nothing wrong with that but he bought a laptop and wanted to be out of our way so he sat in the dinning room.They were a lovely couple but it still made me feel uncomfortable as my client's were not in the studio. I would much rather get them involved holding reflectors or something.Perhaps I should explain that my studio is at home and my son was asking why this stranger was sitting in our dinning room - perfectly valid question.The pictures are technically fine but somehow just seem to lack the sparkle or looks that I was aiming to achieve. This would seem to support your suggestion that your subjects will resemble a reflection of your "state of mind" when the shutter is pressed. That is an interesting idea, which I had never really thought about before. However on reflection I did a boudoir session recently and the lady bought her husband - nothing wrong with that but he bought a laptop and wanted to be out of our way so he sat in the dinning room.

They were a lovely couple but it still made me feel uncomfortable as my client's were not in the studio. I would much rather get them involved holding reflectors or something.

Perhaps I should explain that my studio is at home and my son was asking why this stranger was sitting in our dinning room - perfectly valid question.

The pictures are technically fine but somehow just seem to lack the sparkle or looks that I was aiming to achieve. This would seem to support your suggestion that your subjects will resemble a reflection of your "state of mind" when the shutter is pressed.

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