But I quickly realized that I shouldn’t give up my style or what I love to photograph just because people are paying me for it. Faces are important, yes, and I would never think to leave them out, especially for my clients. Giving it up felt like a betrayal, like I wasn’t being true to myself as an artist. It never occurred to me, after years of taking faceless portraits, that people would expect that from me or that it would be something they wanted.
A photographer should capture smiles, I thought. And for a while, I gave up the faceless portrait. I started a small photography business and began accepting clients this spring.
Last year, as more people began asking me to take their picture, I sort of stumbled into portrait photography. It’s the bits and pieces of people that I love to photograph. I love capturing what is so often overlooked, what can get lost behind a pretty smile. You don’t have to see a face to capture an emotion in a photograph, and I love that. The body, its shape and gestures, conveys the essence of the person. Faces are so expressive, but body language captures something beyond what a face can. And, though I hadn’t drawn a face in many years, I found myself drawn to faces again.Īs I grew into my photography, I started noticing details - hands, feet, shoulders, knees. I photographed faces of people I loved, not with thoughtful composition but simply capturing a moment. When I first picked up a camera and started exploring the world through a lens, I got stuck on the snapshot. I remember when I learned the proportions of the face: the eyes are in the center of the head, but not the face the bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and chin.
#Faceless pictures how to
I spent hours drawing faces, trying to figure out how to render this 3-D object in two dimensions. As a child who loved to draw, I was obsessed with the human face.
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