Photo Tip: Village Bench Ritual

Enlighten Tour- Caryn Esplin – Europe in 40 days – People, Culture, Landscapes of Europe – Photo Tips

Village Bench Ritual: Photo tips for photographing people, culture and landscapes of Europe. I imagine these two friends meet each evening to reminisce about the good old days and watch the people pass by. I observed them for a while and at times they laughed, stared, smirked and argued the night away. Environmental portraits are my favorite type of portraiture so capturing these two in their normal routine of life, just melted my butter. ?

PHOTO TIP – SHADOWS: I used the burn tool in Photoshop to add shadows to push everything into the background, except our delightful subjects. As I like to say.. “Use shadows to shape, define and draw attention to the light.” Caryn Esplin