I'm taking my 5 month old daughter to have pictures taken at JC Penny. Advice needed. [more inside]
posted by otherwordlyglow on Nov 24, 2008 - 14 answers

How do I take better portraits? No, wait - how do I make people more comfortable around me and my camera so that portraits turn out better? I'm thinking in informal situations, like parties, protests, etc. [more inside]
posted by borkingchikapa on Nov 22, 2008 - 19 answers

Who in Seattle will take a nekkid photo of me? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Aug 9, 2007 - 7 answers

Looking for copyright free color images of some of Revolutionary figures [more inside]
posted by LarryC on May 24, 2006 - 6 answers

I want to take some photos of locals around Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). I have two questions: One, is there anything I should know about taking pictures of people like this? I want to be as uninvasive and polite as possible, but I don't want to be a big dumb American screaming "HAY GUYS CAN I TAKE YOUR PHOTO?!" and acting like they're animals in a zoo. Two is a technical question about my Canon Powershot A35... [more inside]
posted by borkingchikapa on Jul 12, 2005 - 9 answers

I'd like to learn how to take pro-quality portrait photographs [more inside.] [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Sep 30, 2004 - 15 answers

I would like to give my mother a pastel portrait of my grandmother as a gift for my mother's upcoming milestone birthday. However, I'm having a very hard time finding an artist who would create a quality portrait based on a photograph, despite having a well-regarded art college in my home city. Everything I look at looks more like a portrait that would win a prize at the county fair than something I'd want to give as a gift. I'd like to spend less than $1000.00 US. Any suggestions? [more inside]
posted by anastasiav on Sep 27, 2004 - 5 answers

Portraits. Desperately trying to think of a suitable present for my parents' Ruby Wedding, we came up with the idea of a family portrait. Photography would probably be safer, but how to find something distinctive (they already have a portrait from about 20 years ago, with us looking uncomfortable in "best" clothes, printed on "canvas", all in a heavy gilt frame, bleagh)? Alternatively, how do you arrange for painted portraits (hopefully in a style everyone likes, and is it horribly expensive)? To make things more complicated, we'll only be visiting for a few days, normally living the other side of the world (they're near Leeds, northern England). Advice? Recommendations?
posted by andrew cooke on May 18, 2004 - 7 answers

What are your thoughts on paying to take pictures of people when traveling in developing countries? [more inside] [more inside]
posted by gottabefunky on Feb 10, 2004 - 13 answers