When the Shot Doesn't Show Up: How to Photograph Meaningfully Under Pressure

When the Shot Doesn't Show Up: How to Photograph Meaningfully Under Pressure

There is a particular kind of pressure that comes when you are making a photograph for someone specific. Not for your portfolio, not for Instagram, not to satisfy your own restless eye. For a person you love, who knows your work well enough to notice if you phoned it in. I have felt that pressure more times than I can count over twenty years of doing this professionally, and it never really gets easier.