Response to David Hou's images of Kathryn

David mentions that he is a theatrical photographer. I imagine that his job involves capturing "the right moment" during rehersals. Thus in shooting a model, he lets her pose herself while he watches her and chooses the right moment to press the shutter button. My guess is that David's primary intention is to capture something about Kathryn's personality, and I think he succeeded with the "balancing" photo--this photo has some spark. I feel that the other three photos of Kathryn taken by David are less successful--these are standard portrait-type shots and thus David's "style" of watching for the decisive moment is not good enough. A lot of thought also needs to go into the technical aspects of creating the photo. Otherwise, you just have good snapshots of a pretty girl (life could be worse).

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