“Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act anyway.”

~ Dr. Robert Anthony

What they want

People want to look good in photos.

They don’t care if it looks artistic or not, they don’t care about the background; people simply like pictures that make them look good. Of course that in pictures they appreciate, the background is also good and that makes them love the whole thing in the first place, but they just don’t know it.

Now, the photographer’s probably most important job is to make subjects look good without distorting the reality…too much.

But hey! making people look like take out from a magazine isn’t such a piece of cake as it may sound. Just imagine what happens when you’re shooting somebody with …bad skin, and they want close-ups. Whatchya gonna do? The model probably isn’t very comfortable being photographed anyway, so telling  them “No that’s not good. Move to the left. Noo nooo i said keep your head upppp!” is definitely -not- going to help at all, but instead kill any spark of trust in themselves they ever had. You can’t simply tell them “Dude, you’re skin is AWFUL. You will look horrible in close-ups!!”.
People will often feel somehow scared or even…shy in front of the camera. That’s because they are constantly concerned about the way they will appear on film.They will try to imitate what they see in magazines..or on tv, without trully knowing or understanding  that what makes them beautiful is simply being themselves. The problem here is that you are looking on the viewfinder, and it’s you the one who knows they have ugly teeth, for example.

So, you find yourself in this situation, what do you do? Do you take a smiling photo of them and then watch them not liking it ?

NO way! You simply distract them from the camera. Talking to them on various subjects, maybe even taking the conversation in a certain direction which might bring up a specific something you are looking for will do the job every time…That way you’ll get them to sit in a background you chose, in a way you chose but have a more personal touch because of their…less “studied” expression.

To add it up: put them in the right compo and position, distract them and keep your camera on continuous shooting.

Wind in her hair

Patience

Patience.

Patience is the most important thing in the world. We all must learn to be patient and not to rush things that must not be rushed. We must learn to take every day at a time, every thing at a time and not to worry until the time for worrying comes.

Every moment must be enjoyed and all things have their moment of enjoyment. That is something people have to understand. You can’t just go through life, jumping from one thing to another, because you are only shortning your time on earth.

Every moment given in an year has its purpose. The waiting has its purpose. Learning to be patient enough to find that purpose is something, we often find impossible.

But at this time I am peaceful, and I feel prepared. I will have enough days to worry about all kinds of things but I shall never forget what I’m waiting for. And without the waiting, what I’ll be getting will not be so valuable, isn’t that right? I would not appreciate the moment when it comes, as I should.

So I’m patiently waiting.

And I hope that so are you – doing one thing at a time, not rushing and enjoying every problem we stumble upon, because you see?…That is what makes the sould come alive.

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No. 16

It is known that there is an infinite number of worlds, but that not every one is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so if every planet in the Universe has a population of zero then the entire population of the Universe must also be zero, and any people you may actually meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination.

~Douglas Adams, The Original Hitchhiker Radio Script.

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Lasa…sa fiu eu fraiera daca asta-i pretul.

Empty chairs at empty tables

“Here they talked of revolution,
here it was they lit the flame,
here they sang about tomorrow and tomorrow never came.”