"Too much analysis kills emotion", Jeanloup Sieff

APPA Sydney 2004

Portrait photographers deal with people. As such, they need to spend the majority of the shoot communicating with their subject and a minimum of time adjusting exposure, focus and tripods. In landscape photography the mountain will most likely wait while you sort out your f-stop but a four-year old certainly won't!

Portrait photographer needs to be more confident and competent in making the technical changes quickly and accurately in the most unobtrusive of fashions.