Misposed

Sometimes when you're about, photographing, something happens and suddenly you just see a picture coming together and it's perfect, and you whip out the camera and snap it! And afterwards you feel this amazing rush, like, I can't believe that just happened! I can't believe the world lined up in that way and allowed me to make this image that is too right to be real.

Here is an example of mine, from a summer afternoon when my little sister was coming back from the garden with her take:

It isn't an amazing art photograph or anything, but there was something about the light, the insane green, the budding fruit and the girl, it all just felt right. And when I saw the photo, I wasn't disappointed.

But sometimes these moments of ecstasy go wrong. You feel that glory, and then the actual photograph is just...not. And if you're a young (or just stupidly in love) photographer photographing the object of your affection, the chances it will go wrong seem...higher than usual.

The problem with photographing someone you're in love with is that you *always* think they look great. And there's something so fascinating about their face and isn't their hair so beautiful, and look at their lovely hands la la la la la. The inspiration is there in the same way, but it comes from something else. Unfortunately for everyone else who isn't in love with your boyfriend or girlfriend they're just flattering photos of moderately attractive people.