Getting Your Client To Relax And Be Themselves.

When I start a session I like to just start slow.  I need time to feel out the client and see what their personality is like.  
Are they outgoing?  Are they shy?  Are they spontaneous or more reserved?  It helps me to know how to bring out the best photos that I can if I know how to get them to respond to the camera. 

A couple of weekends ago I did a session for a beautiful girl named Maggie Bray.  When I met her, she very sweet and lovely.  She had an elegant look about her, which told me right from the start that she cared about how her photos came out. 

Her mom and grandmother came along for the day and we started shooting photos at a fountain, which was in front of a large hotel on Lake Lanier. 

As the photos progressed, I wasn't getting what I wanted.  It just seemed staged.  To perfect, to planned.  I hate perfect, and I really hate planned. 

The best pictures I have ever taken are always when the client is most comfortable.  

Now, I will privy the following statement by saying that I know Maggie and her mother have a great relationship, but non the less I needed her mom and grandmother to disappear.  I kindly asked them to stay in the shade, out of view and let me take Maggie out by herself. 

It was night and day.  There is something about a teenager that can't help but wonder what mom and grand mom are thinking and I knew it.  She may not have realized it but the moment that they were not around it was a totally different shoot and a completely relaxed girl.  She instantly changed her demeanor and the way she carried herself.  The photos just came out better and the shoot was a great success.  

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Alex Aleman
"capturing life perfectly"

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