This is a collection of pieces of advice to make your everyday photos more enjoyable to look at; a little more with every post. These are only bits which do not claim to be complete, but are rather all you need to know at that moment.
I assume my readers are non-professionals who are interested in capturing their memories in the way they have experienced them, instead of how their camera device automatically suggests an output, thereby speaking of using anything from a mobile phone to an auto-set DSLR.
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Mareen Fischinger, a
professional photographer, living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Oftentimes when I take a snapshot of people who are not used to being photographed, they tend to lean into the center of the photo or group, with their head or upper body.
This never looks good, not even when the photo shows only their faces. All it does is enhance the look of a fake situation, staged happiness or closeness.
Therefore, I generally advise to be turned and sit in all sorts of directions, bent back, curled up, however you were before someone pulls out the camera, possibly going a little more to the extreme of that position to make it clearer.
The one taking the photo can still tell you whether you guys fit or not, or just step back a bit.
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