PENNY'S
SPECIALTIES
Areas of Expertise
POSING
NATURAL LIGHT
SHOOTING IN MANUAL MODE
EYE FOR DETAILS
Clients want to see their natural selves in their photographs. Therefore, unnatural stiffness will immediately kill any image for your clients where they look stiff, over-posed, or under posed, despite how well composed it is otherwise.
In my many year photographing seniors, I've made a point to pay extra attention to details when posing while maintaining a natural look.
Personal specialty: Individual posing.
Bad lighting can quickly ruin a photography to a point of no repair. No one knows this better than me as I struggled with this for years! I've never been interested in carrying around bulky complicated lighting outdoors, however, so I studied, practiced, and studied some more. Today I can say with confidence that creating beautiful clean photographs taken exclusively in natural light is kinda my whole thing.
When you're like me and prefer things simple (as in not carrying around and setting up a lot of gear during your shoots) you've gotta know how to get what you want from your camera. Learning to shoot in manual wasn't a choice for me since the person who briefly taught me only knew manual, and I am forever grateful to this. Using manual settings I control how much light enters into my lens, how wide my aperture is for more or less depth of field and focus, how sharp my images can be despite movement, and how close the images is to real life in overall color.
You'd be surprised how small missed details are ruining your photographs such as poles coming out of heads, missing fingers, and hair ties on wrists. Though these won't necessarily ruin your photographs, they do act as major distractions that take away from an otherwise nice photo. As someone who strives to produce professional results, I have trained my eye to catch distractions and anything out of place because who has time to Photoshop all that out for 50+ photos?
