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- 0:00Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
- 0:03Speaker 2: Whether you're taking a photo or posing for a photo,
- 0:05Speaker 2: it can be tough to snap that perfect picture where
- 0:08Speaker 2: the subject is happy with how they look, but it
- 0:11Speaker 2: doesn't look overposed right. Some people have the gift for
- 0:13Speaker 2: capturing just anybody in a great photo, perhaps none more
- 0:17Speaker 2: so than the legendary celebrity photographer Timothy White. He's behind
- 0:21Speaker 2: hundreds of iconic photos of everybody from leaders of statevill Clinton,
- 0:25Speaker 2: Aretha Franklin, and music and Whitney, the Dalai Lama, and
- 0:29Speaker 2: his biggest piece of advice for getting a great photo
- 0:31Speaker 2: of just about anybody is to make them forget they're
- 0:33Speaker 2: being photographed.
- 0:34Speaker 3: It's really all about distracting them so they're not focused
- 0:39Speaker 3: on this device, which is focusing on the edge of
- 0:42Speaker 3: their nose, the pores on the edge of their nose,
- 0:45Speaker 3: but instead interacting with them so that they react to me,
- 0:49Speaker 3: that they're responding to me as I'm responding to them.
- 0:52Speaker 2: If you look at his photos, it's clear he makes
- 0:54Speaker 2: his subjects comfortable and looking good. Timothy white highly anticipated
- 0:58Speaker 2: memoir Life Through My Lens is out now.
- 1:01Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood