Image of the Week: Slack Line, Middlebury, Vermont

You don't always need to include the face to create a successful portrait.

In fact, other elements can be way more revealing about a person than their eyes, nose, and mouth in different situations. Take this week's image for example: a tight shot of the girl's face would have said nothing about the action taking place, and a wide shot of her face down to her feet on the slender slack line would have been too busy to convey the tension of the moment.

So, next time you're out shooting portraits, look around a bit for those often unnoticed details. It can make for some extraordinary imagery.

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Technical Data

Slack Line, Middlebury, Vermont was photographed with a Hasselblad 500CM and a Carl Zeiss T* 80mm ƒ/2.8 lens on Kodak TMax 400 (TMY-2). The exposure was 1/125 second at ƒ/8.

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