It’s all about the eyes. All of my shoots focus on the eyes - for children, couples, dogs - anyone I shoot.
I use props (hats, glasses pushed back on the head to contain hair, hair accessories, even props held up by my subject) to bring attention to the eyes. When I edit pictures, I try to steer all attention to the eyes; even when I crop a subject, my main aim is to crop the picture in such a way that the main thing you see is the subject’s eyes.
I’m not unique in this - I think artists and writers have focused on eyes forever. But even with your iphone, if you spend 15 seconds when you compose your shot of a person or an animal and consciously think “What can I do to draw the viewers attention to my subjects eyes?” you will infinitely up your photography game…
Here are some of my favorite examples I’ve shot!
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