FINE ART PORTRAITS IN NEW YORK
A true portrait is like a story. A true story. Your story. Too many photographers focus on technique, equipment, light, but in the end, most of the portraits are empty ... Where is the spirit, the soul of the person being photographed? Where is his personality, his playfulness, dreamy, romantic? Can we read her strength of character? His desires, joys, sorrows? At least once in your life, you will need a good, an excellent picture of you ... Let me do it. Why ? Because I've done so far over 100 magazine covers ... There are reasons for this ... For years, I often heard the same comments, the same compliments about the portraits I had done: "I usually hate the photos, but I must admit that you have made the best pictures of me ... you have a true natural gift "... I do not... And I'm going to explain you why...
While I was working in the Home for dying people of Calcutta, one patient told me one day: "Nature is like a boomerang ... What you give, it will reward you ..." And he proved it later in the day by giving me back all the attention that I had worn to him in the morning, through its ultimate and unforgettable smile, for a picture I asked him to make, a few seconds before his last breath. His name Thomass. I have never forgotten that day." Whatever you give, the nature will reward you. Give a lot of you if you want to receive a lot ..."
Here is maybe one of my secrets to make good portraits...
Never forget that a portrait is not just a photo technically sharp and well exposed... (read here a text of Nadar from 1850 about Portraits...)
