Inspired by a chapter from our book Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters Guide to Shooting From the Heart, we wrote a collaborative article discussing the way visual stories can be captured through the subtleties in even the smallest of details. This was our very first feature at Digital Photo Magazine and from it came our regular column “Point of Focus”.
“Photographers, in essence, are storytellers. Instead of words, we use images to tell our stories. In traditional portraiture, we most often focus on the face of our subject to narrate the shot. We look to capture just the right curve of the mouth, the twinkle in the eye or the tilt of the head and rely on facial expressions to reveal the heart and soul of the person in front of our lens. There’s so much more to telling the whole story than that.” – An excerpt from The Details of Portraiture.
This article can also be found in the January/February 2011 Issue of Digital Photo Magazine.