People and Place - Exercise 5 - Eye contact and expression

The brief:-

 

Set up a portrait session in which the face is prominent (and so perhaps the head-and-shoulders or torso), direct your subject to look away at times, towards you and etc.

 

I choose a small child as my subject and although you think this may be easy, you cannot direct a small child of this age as they do as they please.

 

I spoke gently and had a rattle that I used to direct the child's attention in different directions.  A happy little chap with cute expression.  I also used a handheld pocket camera as I was visiting a friend.  In some of the images he was facing the window and in others he was facing away with backlighting.

 

Here is the outcome:-