The other day
posted a marvelous story entitled Unlearning Your Way To More Interesting Portraits (3 Things To Stop Worrying So Much About). He makes much sense plus offers powerful examples of his work. I wrote a frankly gushing response. I was jealous. I even admitted it.
Josh got me thinking. I used to be a portrait man. I had a little butter-and-egg studio, and I shot gazillions of “portraits.”
But the portraits I made were the most boring, cookie-cutter, mundane examples of the “art” because I had been trained as a commercial photographer by men whose experience went back to Omaha Beach in Normandy in 1944 when I was two whole years old. Let us be charitable and say that 30 years on, cutting edge they were not.