Bryon DeVore Photography: 3 Days in Berkeley

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Thursday, October 8, 2009

3 Days in Berkeley

Just read an article about the photographer who took the picture of Sarah Palin for her new book (#1 on Amazon and it hasn't even been printed yet!). 6 day trip to AK with a full assistant crew. 2 days of scouting and 3 full days of photographing... all for one book cover photo! Meanwhile, I'm working with 5 families over 2 1/2 days in Berkeley this past weekend. Zero days of scouting, 13 kids, two dogs... zero Sarah Palin book covers, but tons of fun photos. Thank you to all the families involved; I had a blast.

btw... I plan on making this a regular/annual trip; if you know of anyone that may be interested in relaxed, natural portraits in the Bay Area... Let Me Know!

I photograph people. I try to capture moments and fleeting expressions; REAL moments and REAL expressions are always the goal... easy on the "cheese" as the teenagers say. That said, I've come to believe that there is something basically untrue about "capturing" people in an image and that there in-lies the big challenge for a photographer. Real moments and expressions don't stop and can't REALLY be frozen, they are fluid and fleeting... gone before they finish happening. The camera freezes something that wasn't really meant to be stopped. But those unreal stoppages of time can be so beautiful, so emotional... and strangely to me, very, very real. How odd this art of people photography... not so much creating, but capturing, stopping the unstoppable and then surrounding that moment, that expression with the real art of the photograph, the background, the crop, the angle, the color, the parts that can be created. But being there when the moment or expression happens, having your finger on the shutter release at that exact second... that is a form of art as well.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

3 Days in Berkeley

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