The Digital Photography Book Vol 3 by Scott Kelby

Author:Scott Kelby
Language: eng
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Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Six

Shooting People

Like a Pro

Yet Even More Tips to Make

People Look Their Very Best

How can there possibly be yet even more tips about how to make people look their very best? It’s easy: have you ever looked at people? I mean, really looked at them. Up close. It’s scary. I’m not talking about me or you, mind you. Other people. Let’s take your average guy, for example. If he’s above the age of 12 or so, most likely he has hair coming out of his nose, his ears, his underarms, and it’s growing like ivy on his arms, legs—just about anywhere you wouldn’t actually want hair growing.

These are just the places you can see. I know. Gross. Anyway, what are we, as photographers, to do about shooting these grotesque human fur balls?

We fi nd ways to light them, using either natural light, studio light, or some twisted combination of the two, so that they’re somewhat bearable to look at, as long we don’t look very closely. This applies to all men, with the possible exception of George Clooney. Now, when I look at George Clooney, I see kind of a well-groomed, decent looking guy, but the women I know, including those who are photographers, see something entirely diff erent in him.

They don’t see the hairy mass I described previously. They have the same reaction to him that they have to chocolate cake. They lose complete control of their faculties. So, based on this (my conclusions are strictly based on my own personal observations, and not scientifi c data, though I’ve never met a female scientist that didn’t fi nd George Clooney irresistible in a chocolate-molten-lava-cake kind of way), I decided to conduct an experiment. I went to my local bakery, had the woman who owns the bakery choose the hands-down yummiest chocolate cake she sells, and then I used a series of A-clamps and gaff er’s tape to affi

x this to the head of my assistant Brad

to see if this would bring about the “Clooney reaction,” despite his having no Clooney-like resemblance. Well, it worked better than I had expected, and within two weeks he wound up marrying a supermodel from Prague, who to this day refers to herself as Mrs. Clooney. True story.

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