In today’s Daily Critique Craig takes a critical look at his own work and talks about the idea of approach to image design as it relates to his people photography:

 

- how the subject matter itself has an effect on approach and process

 

- when we start to interact with people how we are being behind the camera becomes very important

 

- taking a long view of the process of people photography and making the concept of community a big part of your work

 

- keeping color simple from the beginning

 

- working far to near

 

- shooting 10 to 20 shots and then making a change to camera angle, subject distance, lens choice or all of the above

 

- giving frequent breaks to your portrait subjects and continuing to shoot in the breaks

 

- when shooting full body shots looking for formally symmetrical backgrounds that can repeat the formal symmetry of the human form