“You are running a discriminatory business! It’s all WOMEN!”– a very good (male) friend of mine.
“Well…yes….but not on purpose!!” — me.
DISCLAIMER: I would love to have male clients, I just don’t have any male clients yet! So since I have none, please view the following post as pulled from my experience….of all women!! I’d love to make a post just like this about male photographers….but alas, I work with none!
Dude, I think women photographers are just about the greatest thing on earth. I really do. Here’s my little *hat’s off post* to the amazing ladies I work with, to remind them that I think they are just phenoms.
5 Reasons Women Make Amazing Photogaphers
1. Women can get gushy without feeling self-conscious, and how do you photograph a newborn baby without gush?? How do you catch those sweet, romantic, we’re-all-teary moments at weddings without the gush?? How do you not ooh and ahh and get giddy over those little things that make a photograph so wonderful?
2. A woman is used to juggling. No woman in the world, be her married/single/mom/childless, who doesn’t juggle and wear a hundred thousand hats a day. In a week a woman is usually all of these Supermom, Career Woman, Sexy Hot Thing, Polite Lady, Angry Cat Fighter, Eye Batting Girl, House Project Manager, Disciplinarian Iron Fist, Chef of Many Meals, Best Girlfriend Shoulder to Cry On, Kitchen Table Comedian, and the list goes on and on and on. So when it comes to organizing a family outdoors, coaxing a child to be happy, helping a couple get more romantic, or just the person who has to get all that gear set up while simultaneously organizing the bride’s family while also reminding your second shooter to go get details….it comes natural. We are born with many roles in us, so the dancing act that goes into photography is just another day.
3. We love pretty things. No little girl in the world doesn’t want a pretty room, pretty hair, a pretty baby doll, a pretty dress. No teenage girl isn’t striving to be pretty through clothes/makeup/magic hair products. No grown woman doesn’t want the prettiest house possible. I mean, it’s the reason Pinterest is thriving! So of course, when photographing anything, a women is seeking the pretty. Oh, and we know pretty when we see it, we’re pulling from decades of pretty hunting and creating. We can see when your face is at it’s prettiest angle, we can see what that light does to your hair, and we can catch the moment he’s looking at you as if you’re the prettiest girl in the world.
4. We are emotional. Some actually would say we’re insane, as a mass society, because we are so emotional. But I know from experience of being photographed many times, you want an emotional being behind the lens. A woman is going to shoot with real feeling. It’s never going to be a rational look at composition and scale and grids in her mind, it’s going to be the feeling she’s getting while looking at you, and directing that emotion behind the lens. Your baby looks loved in those images because she know how to love a baby, your new husband looks hot in those pictures because she can capture the emotion a hot guy gives, and your family looks like they’re happy because she know what a happy family feels like. We may drive our loved ones nuts with out emotional range, but it only helps in this profession!
5. We are trendy-aware. It’s just a fact. We read the popular magazines and books, buy the household goods, watch the shows on E!, and scope out other women’s clothes/houses/shoes/hair all the time. Unconsciously, we’re always forming a picture of what’s “in” right now. What looks good, what is on the way out, and so on. Well, this helps with photography because it means a woman’s eye is always being shaped and changed with the times. You’re less likely to have dated images when you are working with a woman, as she is always shaping her style and aware, even if she’s just wearing old jeans to shoot you, she knows what’s up in the world!
So there you have it, from my fascist, women only regime (but not on purpose!) to you, the reasons I think in this field, women are killing it.
Bottom line: Ansel Adams can shoot a mean mountain scene, but as I’m not a mountain, I would pick Annie Leibovitz.
xoxoxo
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