Photo by Anna Rose
http://www.annaroseblog.com
If there were one point, and only one point that I wanted to get across, it’s that pictures are all about the small stuff. I really don’t care much whether something is classic, modern, vintage, or editorial. What I think really matters is that the picture works. And it’s never the look and the feel that’s enough to carry that. Because what you really want to do is make the viewer to connect – to understand why you took it and what it says, even though they weren’t there and don’t know what was going on. And to do that, you need to get the small stuff right.
That’s exactly what Anna did here. It’s a simple unassuming picture with some nice light, but what’s definitive to me isn’t that the couple is looking at one another. It’s that they look like there’s something between them. He looks relaxed and natural, but she sells it. The way her her bottom lip curls up, and there’s just a hint of a squint. It tells me that she isn’t just looking at him. She’s giving him a look. It matches nicely with the body positions, and it creates a simple natural picture that makes the intangible something that two people have tangible.
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