Online Photography Course: Candid Shots

Video Transcript

" Hello, I’m Chris Conklin for expertvillage.com. In this segment, we’re going to be talking about featuring poses…the difference between candid and posed. When we talk about getting actual candid shots, we are talking about things like action, somebody is actually doing something or playing a sporting event or they are actually performing an act of some sort or they are excited they are dramatic. What you are trying to do is you are trying to catch them off guard, so that they do not really know that you are actually even taking their photograph; what you are really looking for is something that is interesting and appealing for the picture. What is it that that person is thinking or that they are doing, what is going through their head, capture that aspect, that drama, the fear, the personality whether it be happy, whether it be sad, or lucky…what it is you are looking to capture something that normally would not be captured or posed. "