point where you need to ask your subjects
to focus their gaze toward the camera. For
some portraits, you want subjects to direct
their eyes in another direction.
When taking portraits, I often have subjects
try to focus their eyes in a few directions by
first looking directly toward my lens, and
then asking them look to the left, right,
slightly up, or slightly down.
When shooting portraits either
indoors or outdoors, consider
adding fill flash to create a
catchlight in your subject’s eyes.
The eyes are an important com-
ponent in your overall posing,
and attention to detail, such as
including catchlight, adds to the
quality of your portraits.
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