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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 341017" data-attributes="member: 1061">If you don't know what you want, and you don't know how to express to your subjects what kind of project this is, then how can you expect anyone viewing the images to follow along? It doesn't make any sense.I mean, if you just want to take photos of people who are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Married 25+ years</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Age 50+</li> </ul>...and have no real direction, then it's not a photo project. You might as well just do a casting call and take snapshot portraits with a Polaroid or do street photos. We WANT to see a bit of you in the images. If you think that a themed project is just showing up and taking pics with no direction, wardrobe, posing, or any kind of input from the photographer, then you are missing the entire point.If the goal is to show love, then show love. If the goal is to show how people who have been married a long time can fall out of love, then show that. Instead of having two people blankly stare into the camera, have them face opposite directions with their backs to each other. Have one sleeping soundly while the other looks angry or sad. Being in a couple's bedroom is about the most private experience a photographer can hope to capture (aside from point blank porn). I think you have the makings of a great idea, but what you have shown here is just confusing.Talk to people who are open to doing a shoot like this. Ask them if they're honestly happy. Maybe he sits up on the computer all night and she doesn't like it. That's something you can photograph. Maybe she snores like a banshee. Perhaps he's a drunk. These are all things you can work with, but they're all going to need your direction and input in order to shine.</blockquote>

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