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179 - How to Create Portraits That Feel Raw, Honest, and Powerful
In this episode, I sit down with portrait photographer Betina LaPlante to explore the philosophy and practice behind her visceral, intimate portraiture.
Topics covered:
Why Betina puts the camera down before she ever starts shooting — and how building rapport before a session transforms the images she gets
The difference between directing a subject and witnessing one — and why she almost always chooses to witness
Her work photographing actors like Charles Dance and Christopher Lloyd, and what it means to reveal the person behind the persona
How shooting tethered (something she rarely does)…
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