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October 21, 2011

Headshots as Promised

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My time as a high school teacher taught me how to instantly connect with teens and make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. I love photographing high school seniors all over the Greater Des Moines Metro and Midwest (yes, I’m willing to travel). 

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I said I would do this earlier this week, so here they are. The headshots Faith took of me and these have been edited a touch…I think it’s safe to say Faith had a great time using my camera and loves the 50mm lens we had on it at the time. 🙂 Her assignment was to pretend I was a senior  and she was doing my senior portraits.

Yes, it was a bad hair day after a long day at work and Friday afternoon no less. The main point of this was for Faith to work with someone on posing them. Preferably an awkward-in-front-of-the-camera-subject such as myself…

I declare this as my Teacher Face:

Chin down…
Chin up just slightly…
Faith brings out the crinkly-nose smile when we work together….what can I say? 🙂
How do you think she did?

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My time as a high school teacher taught me how to instantly connect with teens and make them feel comfortable in front of the camera. I love photographing high school seniors all over the Greater Des Moines Metro and Midwest (yes, I’m willing to travel). 

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