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I Am A Boston Photographer Who Took Beautiful Portraits In Some Unlikely Places
Have you been looking for that perfect location to take your client’s breath away? How many of you do one (or more) of these:
1. Endlessly drive around looking for the perfect location
2. Use the same location over and over and feel like you are running out of creativity
3. Don’t think you have “the perfect location” near you
4. Look at a location and say, “I can’t produce a beautiful image I/my clients will love here!”
Here is what I have to say about that – STOP MAKING EXCUSES!
Would your clients think you were crazy if you said, “I would love to shoot your portraits, meet me at the office park, old parking lot, or strip mall and we will create beautiful images to decorate your home!”
PROVE THEM WRONG!
My daughter and I set out one night to find the most unsuspecting places to create just that. We stayed within a mile of our home, stopped at random places, jumped out of the car, posed, shot, took a cell phone picture of the location, jumped back in the car and did it again. We stopped at 9 places in one hour.
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Bear Trapp 7 years ago
So the point of the story is shoot close, and use good editing software.
Katherine Worley 7 years ago
These are not ugly locations, some of the flowers, fences, stone walls and greenery are absolutely beautiful! I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is the point the artist is trying to make here. Nice photos!
Kristel 7 years ago
Exactly! Beauty is everywhere! You just have to be able to see / discover it! It is literally EVERYWHERE!
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Arkady 7 years ago
It may not be about skill, but for this, it’s definitely about having a lens that compresses the background to be blurry and “pretty” and well...editing software.
Francisco Montoya 7 years ago
I was thinking "Helps to have a nice lens to blur out what you don't want in the background." But still I get the initial point, you can still take a great photo in unlikely places.
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Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
The title was a bit misleading, I thought this was gonna be about how any place can look good if you take a photo well, but it ended up being about how the location doesn't really matter as much as people make it out to when the focus of the photo is not the location (but a person, an animal, maybe an object). I personally think in these photos the background indeed doesn't matter at all, since they're closes and the rest is blurred. But maybe show more examples with more people, and more open shots? To show the point better. Just a thought.
Nadine Ducca 7 years ago
I agree with you. In these photos, I felt that the "ugly" backgrounds didn't matter at all because they had simply been blurred (some beyond recognition) to focus solely on the model. If you do that, then it doesn't matter so much where you shoot. To really get the point across, I think the photographer should make the locations more prominent.
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Real Life Simply Photography (Post author) 7 years ago
Interesting...I didn't realize Bored Panda changes the title of your posts. The original title is Boston Photographer makes beautiful portraits in the most unlikely places. Check it out here: http://www.reallifesimply.com/2017/07/create-beautiful-portraits-in-any-location/
Nick Knight 7 years ago
The title of this should have been "How to photograph my daughter" because without her it is just colors and blurry trees/plants. Btw the author says "My daughter and I set out one night to find the most unsuspecting places..." So really, your daughter just happens to have her hair done: washed and styled/combed, her clothes picked out and pretty, with her second outfit: the white shirt ironed and matching her white shoes. This all seems extremely staged which is fine but don't lie and say that you set out to find a place one night, dude you planned all of this ahead of time(with a second change of clothes) and you blurred out the background, anybody can do that with a computer. Also, this is another slight irritation I had: dude please don't post photos of your child in shorts, your photos are a bit creepy, especially on the 8th location. I know a lot of people might think it's okay she's just a kid, but I don't. This isn't your personal facebook, this is the Internet ...
7j6eqi 7 years ago
Thank you. I don't understand how some people just don't see these things... My old boss once wanted to put up naked pictures of his six year old daughter on his firm website, that he took because she was swimming with the new pool furniture we designed. We then had to team up to talk him out of it...
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Lyone Fein 7 years ago
Just a note to the other commenters: it's not about editing software. It's about framing your subject, and understanding focus.
Surya Amriza 7 years ago
Agree with the author. We should stop making excuses. Good photos are mostly coming from a skilled (by talent or by learned) photographer and photo editor.
Mark Williamson 7 years ago
I think that the point of the story is wrong. Rather than using poor locations to make great photos these pics are all examples of selecting a small part of the location that is good and using that. So in fact they are all great locations, in a small sense. Its one technique but it is hardly that interesting. ie Exclude what you don't want to see, use a long lens and a small f-stop.
Scott White 7 years ago
yep , seems legit. go to a location and make sure you can't see it at all.
Kimberly Robinson 7 years ago
Yes, you can find beauty in almost every location. Really great photos.
morgan jeffries 7 years ago
I don't like the final result of any of these. They look staged and making the kid into a glamorous model. I prefer photos of kids being kids.
Michalina Okreglicka 7 years ago
a lot of photoshop and you have a good picture in crappy places :) good!
Abhinandan Gadge 7 years ago
Location doesn't matter if you are having that much depth of field
Josué Quero 7 years ago
Amaizing! I just have to ask, did you only use a Camera or did you have a speedlight too? I can't pinpoint it, but I think you're using artifical lighting in some of the pictures, right? Beautiful model too!
Trang Tran 7 years ago
everyone can take the same photos with your gear and even better with photoshop
Melody Lanzatella 7 years ago
How many times are you going to do this "exercise" to prove your point?? You HAVE proved your point!
lindsayaotter 7 years ago
It isn't skill. Well not really, skill alone. It is creatively and being able to see the beautiful in the ordinary.
Elise Martin 7 years ago
Thats so true! I have seen this so often with my own photos! Great Work!
BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
if you have ever seen russian photoshoots (by who i assume are amateurs) it becomes quite clear that skill is everything, just not the only thing.
Bear Trapp 7 years ago
So the point of the story is shoot close, and use good editing software.
Katherine Worley 7 years ago
These are not ugly locations, some of the flowers, fences, stone walls and greenery are absolutely beautiful! I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is the point the artist is trying to make here. Nice photos!
Kristel 7 years ago
Exactly! Beauty is everywhere! You just have to be able to see / discover it! It is literally EVERYWHERE!
Load More Replies... Arkady 7 years ago
It may not be about skill, but for this, it’s definitely about having a lens that compresses the background to be blurry and “pretty” and well...editing software.
Francisco Montoya 7 years ago
I was thinking "Helps to have a nice lens to blur out what you don't want in the background." But still I get the initial point, you can still take a great photo in unlikely places.
Load More Replies... Rafaella Bueno 7 years ago
The title was a bit misleading, I thought this was gonna be about how any place can look good if you take a photo well, but it ended up being about how the location doesn't really matter as much as people make it out to when the focus of the photo is not the location (but a person, an animal, maybe an object). I personally think in these photos the background indeed doesn't matter at all, since they're closes and the rest is blurred. But maybe show more examples with more people, and more open shots? To show the point better. Just a thought.
Nadine Ducca 7 years ago
I agree with you. In these photos, I felt that the "ugly" backgrounds didn't matter at all because they had simply been blurred (some beyond recognition) to focus solely on the model. If you do that, then it doesn't matter so much where you shoot. To really get the point across, I think the photographer should make the locations more prominent.
Load More Replies... Real Life Simply Photography (Post author) 7 years ago
Interesting...I didn't realize Bored Panda changes the title of your posts. The original title is Boston Photographer makes beautiful portraits in the most unlikely places. Check it out here: http://www.reallifesimply.com/2017/07/create-beautiful-portraits-in-any-location/
Nick Knight 7 years ago
The title of this should have been "How to photograph my daughter" because without her it is just colors and blurry trees/plants. Btw the author says "My daughter and I set out one night to find the most unsuspecting places..." So really, your daughter just happens to have her hair done: washed and styled/combed, her clothes picked out and pretty, with her second outfit: the white shirt ironed and matching her white shoes. This all seems extremely staged which is fine but don't lie and say that you set out to find a place one night, dude you planned all of this ahead of time(with a second change of clothes) and you blurred out the background, anybody can do that with a computer. Also, this is another slight irritation I had: dude please don't post photos of your child in shorts, your photos are a bit creepy, especially on the 8th location. I know a lot of people might think it's okay she's just a kid, but I don't. This isn't your personal facebook, this is the Internet ...
7j6eqi 7 years ago
Thank you. I don't understand how some people just don't see these things... My old boss once wanted to put up naked pictures of his six year old daughter on his firm website, that he took because she was swimming with the new pool furniture we designed. We then had to team up to talk him out of it...
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 7 years ago
Just a note to the other commenters: it's not about editing software. It's about framing your subject, and understanding focus.
Surya Amriza 7 years ago
Agree with the author. We should stop making excuses. Good photos are mostly coming from a skilled (by talent or by learned) photographer and photo editor.
Mark Williamson 7 years ago
I think that the point of the story is wrong. Rather than using poor locations to make great photos these pics are all examples of selecting a small part of the location that is good and using that. So in fact they are all great locations, in a small sense. Its one technique but it is hardly that interesting. ie Exclude what you don't want to see, use a long lens and a small f-stop.
Scott White 7 years ago
yep , seems legit. go to a location and make sure you can't see it at all.
Kimberly Robinson 7 years ago
Yes, you can find beauty in almost every location. Really great photos.
morgan jeffries 7 years ago
I don't like the final result of any of these. They look staged and making the kid into a glamorous model. I prefer photos of kids being kids.
Michalina Okreglicka 7 years ago
a lot of photoshop and you have a good picture in crappy places :) good!
Abhinandan Gadge 7 years ago
Location doesn't matter if you are having that much depth of field
Josué Quero 7 years ago
Amaizing! I just have to ask, did you only use a Camera or did you have a speedlight too? I can't pinpoint it, but I think you're using artifical lighting in some of the pictures, right? Beautiful model too!
Trang Tran 7 years ago
everyone can take the same photos with your gear and even better with photoshop
Melody Lanzatella 7 years ago
How many times are you going to do this "exercise" to prove your point?? You HAVE proved your point!
lindsayaotter 7 years ago
It isn't skill. Well not really, skill alone. It is creatively and being able to see the beautiful in the ordinary.
Elise Martin 7 years ago
Thats so true! I have seen this so often with my own photos! Great Work!
BREAK YOUr perceptions 7 years ago
if you have ever seen russian photoshoots (by who i assume are amateurs) it becomes quite clear that skill is everything, just not the only thing.
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