The Art of Connection: Infusing Emotion and Body Language in Photography with Denise Birdsong

The Art & Soul Show - Photography Podcast for Newborn and Family Photographers

As photographers, I bet many of us have experienced flat, uninteresting photos when we haven’t felt a connection with our clients, especially when we started out. That emotional connection is the magic sauce that makes your photos shine.

In today’s episode, I’m interviewing Denise Birdsong, an award-winning wedding portrait and boudoir photographer from the San Francisco Bay Area, who is a pioneer of emotive photography. Denise shares her advice for how to infuse your photos with real emotion, how to build trust and connection with your clients, and how photography itself is changing because of a greater emphasis on emotions.

What’s in this episode:

[02:48] What Denise is passionate about in photography and how her grandmother helped her find her voice as an artist

[11:08] The challenges Denise has faced as an artist, namely, being called an artist in the first place

[17:03] Denise is the master of infusing emotion into her work and she gives some advice for anyone who is drawn to it but might be scared to start

[24:00] Why trust is so incredibly important when it comes to creating connections with your clients

[28:51] Why there’s a renaissance of emotion in photos currently and how photography is evolving because of it

[31:34] The legacy that Denise’s mom has left on her creative work

Tune in to this episode for how to infuse emotion and connection into your next photo session.

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