How camera-shy are you, really?
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Being photographed genuinely costs you something. That is worth planning around rather than pushing through.
How camera-shy are you, really?
Being photographed genuinely costs you something. That is worth planning around rather than pushing through.
Ask for a small, closed set: photographer only, no assistant, no audience, no one waiting in the room. Ask for the session to start with frames where you are not looking at the lens — profile, hands, a detail — and to build towards eye contact rather than opening with it.
Motion and a task. Walking, sitting down, putting a coat on, holding a coffee. People who dislike being photographed almost always photograph well the moment they are doing something instead of being looked at.
Say all of this in your enquiry, not on the day. A photographer who knows in advance will structure the session differently — slower, quieter, in a location you choose rather than a studio if that helps.
You may still not enjoy it. Plenty of people never do. The measure of a good session is not whether you had fun; it is whether you can use the pictures.
The quiz asks 8 questions. Every answer carries a weight, and this result covers scores from 22 to 30 out of a possible 31. Landing here means your answers clustered in that band rather than at either extreme — the bands exist because the useful advice genuinely differs between them, not to flatter anyone.
The scoring happens in your browser. No answer is transmitted, stored or attached to you; the quiz simply opens the fixed page matching your band.
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Send me the date and a sentence about what the pictures are for.