A couple of months ago when there was a discussion about the selection of photos for the wall calendars and other annual reports or documentation, I made a point: insert or use only those photos which show or capture the natural scene... not a posed or orchestrated still.
I understand the value and need of posed photos. But when it comes to showing life and living in its best form, pictures that speak have far more value and add meaning to the text or context.
I have before me a wall calendar with a photo of a group of women around a tailoring gadget. It clearly shows an instructor speaking to a dozen women about the work or tailoring skill. It could have been a posed photo, wherein the cameraman or someone may have asked them to gather around. But the beauty of the photo is that not one among those in the photo are worried or facing the camera. Each one is so engaged in the words and instructions of the tutor that tells how profoundly they are interested in the skill or art of tailoring. Their faces endorse the fact that there is training happening!!! That trainees are passionate about their training! That the instructor is an engaging person.
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