Willing lab rats
I am unafraid and unashamed to experiment on my friends. Sometimes that means trying a recipe for the first time and asking them to taste the results. Sometimes it means asking them to read something I’m working on to see if they understand it in the way I’m trying to present it. And sometimes — as this past week — it means offering to take their picture as a way of practicing my portraiture.
My friend Mike and his wife Donna are both exceptionally attractive, so it’s no surprise that their 11-month-old, Matthew, is also a cutie patootie. What was a surprise was how completely comfortable he was with having his picture taken. That child was working it. He was giving it up for the camera. I didn’t even have to ask his parents to pose him. He just did his thing, and I kept snapping.
I took almost 100 shots, deleted the ones that were completely unworkable (out of focus, poorly exposed, boring, someone blinking or grimacing), and burned the remaining 63 to a CD. This is one of my favorites.
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