Learning Faces

As a product photographer faces tend not to be my focus, indeed I so rarely see a model in the studio that I'm not too hot on what to do with them when I get one! Luckily when we do we hire the professionals who are already brilliant at holding themselves, looking relaxed and confident, and knowing what to do with their hands and facial expressions!
This, while really helpful during a time constrained shoot, does nothing to help me imporve in my personal work and is therefore one of the many areas I want to improve on. As luck would have it, I have a friend that wants to model. She was asked last week to pop down to a couple of agencies with a view to be added to their books. She was asked to take a few photos with her if she had them; so, on Saturday, I brought her to my studio and we took these. As the agencies wanted natual shots these have not been through much post, only skin smoothing and colour adjustments.