Picture perfect With portrait photography appearing to be a dying art, Keith Moss is reigniting the flame aking his willing pupils all over Europe, Keith Moss’s courses offer his pupils the chance to emulate his passion and skills in taking the perfect portraits with his amazingly tailored portraiture courses. ‘In essence, taking a portrait is recording a moment in time,’ says Keith, 55, who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of perfect portraiture. ‘A portrait needs to capture the true personality of the sitter,
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which isn’t easy to do. I teach not only the art of using a camera, but also how to build an effective rapport with the subject in order to get the best out of them.’ In fact, Keith says that to capture a great portrait is ‘80 percent personality and 20 percent photography skill.’ Where Keith stands alone is that he refuses to use Photoshop to improve his work, preferring instead to take the perfect image on its own merit. He believes that
Photoshop has dehumanised photography, which by its very nature is one of the most human of arts. His photographs emulate the very soul of the sitter. They tell a story. They embrace everything that is human about a person. His courses teach far more than how to use fi lters and computers. Keith gets to know his sitter. He wants his images to represent who this person is, and he can only do that