Comments on: Where is Your Subject Looking and Why Does it Matter? http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter Discover how to use your digital camera with our Digital Photography Tips. We are a community of photographers of all experience levels who come together to learn, share and grow in our understanding of photography. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rita http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-249350 Rita Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:21:57 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-249350 Hi there! Thank you for so insightful articles. I'm about to have my first hired portrait shoot for an enterpreneur, so I have lots of questions, but I don't want to do it all in corporate style portraits. A location/environmental approach seems more suitable. Great advice there too! I welcome any advice/suggestions. All ze best. ______ Gear - 50MM f/1.8 and 24-70MM f2.8 Hi there!
Thank you for so insightful articles.
I’m about to have my first hired portrait shoot for an enterpreneur, so I have lots of questions, but I don’t want to do it all in corporate style portraits.
A location/environmental approach seems more suitable. Great advice there too!

I welcome any advice/suggestions.
All ze best.
______
Gear – 50MM f/1.8 and 24-70MM f2.8

]]> By: Ed Letts http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-230834 Ed Letts Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:54:04 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-230834 I usually prefer my subject not looking at the camera. Sometimes they are not looking at all http://www.flickr.com/photos/edletts/5174111978/in/photostream I usually prefer my subject not looking at the camera.
Sometimes they are not looking at all

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edletts/5174111978/in/photostream

]]> By: focal50 http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-157061 focal50 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:22:30 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-157061 Thanks a lot..this is very helpful for me.... Hope this shot works.. http://focal50.blogspot.com/2011/02/childs-amazement.html Thanks a lot..this is very helpful for me….

Hope this shot works..
http://focal50.blogspot.com/2011/02/childs-amazement.html

]]> By: aisha http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-129521 aisha Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:29:29 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-129521 i never thought of it that way before. almost all the photos i have seen the person is looking at you. now i can have some fun trying this out - thanks i never thought of it that way before. almost all the photos i have seen the person is looking at you. now i can have some fun trying this out

– thanks

]]> By: Headshot NYC http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-103244 Headshot NYC Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:36:12 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-103244 It's a trusting actor that will choose a headshot where they're not looking into the camera: http://chiamessina.com/actor-headshots/ It’s a trusting actor that will choose a headshot where they’re not looking into the camera: http://chiamessina.com/actor-headshots/

]]> By: Booker http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-72472 Booker Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:13:31 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-72472 I think another component to this is how the camera is oriented to the subject. If you're level with the face, then it's more natural to have the eyes at the camera. If you're above to below, well, it depends. That shot of somebody looking up, either with the cam in front or them leaning back, is pretty engaging, usually with a really narrow DOF centered right on the eyeballs. Then again if the person is awkwarding looking down at the camera, chubbing up their neck, well, that probably won't work too well. Same thing goes for side-to-side, or having the subject well into the right or left 1/3s of the image. If they're way to the side and looking at the camera it could create something interesting, but more often than not it leads to nowhere once your eyes see them looking back at you. On the other hand, a face on the far right looking towards the left (like bubble boy) creates movement. I think another component to this is how the camera is oriented to the subject.

If you’re level with the face, then it’s more natural to have the eyes at the camera. If you’re above to below, well, it depends. That shot of somebody looking up, either with the cam in front or them leaning back, is pretty engaging, usually with a really narrow DOF centered right on the eyeballs. Then again if the person is awkwarding looking down at the camera, chubbing up their neck, well, that probably won’t work too well.

Same thing goes for side-to-side, or having the subject well into the right or left 1/3s of the image. If they’re way to the side and looking at the camera it could create something interesting, but more often than not it leads to nowhere once your eyes see them looking back at you. On the other hand, a face on the far right looking towards the left (like bubble boy) creates movement.

]]> By: Jennifer Moore http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-66100 Jennifer Moore Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:53:55 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-66100 I find that I tend to prefer to photograph people not looking into the camera. I prefer the air of mystery that creates. Then again, my interest, in terms of human sujbects, is more fashion/commercial and less portraiture. I find that I tend to prefer to photograph people not looking into the camera. I prefer the air of mystery that creates.

Then again, my interest, in terms of human sujbects, is more fashion/commercial and less portraiture.

]]> By: mrsrobinson http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-58528 mrsrobinson Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:32:24 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-58528 All types of portraits can be powerful, but there is just something about looking directly into someone's eyes in a portrait that gets me every time. All types of portraits can be powerful, but there is just something about looking directly into someone’s eyes in a portrait that gets me every time.

]]> By: photo-on-head101 http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-44530 photo-on-head101 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:40:12 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-44530 thanks some gret tips, i have to say that oyounger childern are a joy to photograph , they have such interesting face when they are focused on one thing and not the camrea . the most rewarding shots are the ones of them that didnt know you took captchering their moment joy is what i like :) thanks some gret tips, i have to say that oyounger childern are a joy to photograph , they have such interesting face when they are focused on one thing and not the camrea . the most rewarding shots are the ones of them that didnt know you took captchering their moment joy is what i like :)

]]> By: B P Maiti http://www.digital-photography-school.com/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/comment-page-1#comment-44311 B P Maiti Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:24:53 +0000 http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/where-is-your-subject-looking-and-why-does-it-matter/#comment-44311 Thought provoking and educative. Thought provoking and educative.

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