{"id":447,"date":"2009-11-12T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=447"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:20:22","slug":"374-candid-portrait-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/374-candid-portrait-session\/","title":{"rendered":"#374 Candid Portrait Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/374-candid-portrait-session\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Often, when we get asked to do <a title=\"Ottawa Photo Portraits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/workshops\/workshops_portraits.htm\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fworkshops%2Fworkshops_portraits.htm','Ottawa+Photo+Portraits')\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">portraits<\/a> they are done casually.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of posing we walk.<\/p>\n<p>We leave lights and reflectors in the office and use sun, shade and diffused light. I ask them to tell stories from their past. Eyes sparkle as memories unfold.<\/p>\n<p>We wander. I capture.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the quickest way to a portrait but it&#8217;s fun and I draw smiles from their souls.<\/p>\n<p>Some smiles:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 312px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Candid Portraits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/CJ1109.jpg\" alt=\"Candid Portraits\" width=\"302\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candid Portraits<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Candid Portraits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/CJ1109b.jpg\" alt=\"Candid Portraits\" width=\"250\" height=\"593\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candid Portraits<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Candid Portraits\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/CJ1109c.jpg\" alt=\"Candid Portraits\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Candid Portraits<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Often, when we get asked to do portraits they are done casually. Instead of posing we walk. We leave lights and reflectors in the office and use sun, shade and diffused light. I ask them to tell stories from <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/12\/374-candid-portrait-session\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2009%2F11%2F12%2F374-candid-portrait-session%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[81,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6509,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/6509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}