Its Only Natural

"Just try to give me a natural smile" says me to the model on the other side of the camera. "No, come on. Think of something funny!" I add.

They must be growling inside as I coach my subjects to a natural look. They are feeling anything but natural. I am looking straight at them through a lens. Sometimes they hardly know me. Sometimes they don't even want to be there.

There  have been times when I have questioned my photographic skills. I have often felt that I fall short of the customers expectation of a moody, artsy, trendy, crooked, mis-colored, and over photo-shopped images that the industry demands. But one thing I think I am good at is engaging the model and finding that natural smile. Eventually with almost everyone I have ever photographed I have found something about which I can babble away and make them politely but naturally smile and then I click it!

Becca

Natural is what this beauty gave me during her session last fall and I could make her my Studio C poster child for keeping it real. That's really what I'm about. No glamour. No special effects. No over-re-touching. Just real. Real classic and real natural.