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Originally Posted by tony404
I hate girl girl when they looked at the camera, it screams posed. I prefer for them to go at it and I find the shot like the news does. So the viewer is like a fly on the wall.
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In Hollywood or theatre stage terms its referred to as 'breaking the fourth wall'.
The fly on the wall approach is also what I prefer. I'd sooner have a model act as though she's unaware of the camera's presence, and I often instruct our models to purposely avoid looking in to the camera. I won't say I completely dislike eye contact with the lens, but after a while it gets a little insipid and unnatural so I tend to limit it as much as possible.
Either way, both sides of the coin are highly subjective to each individual viewer and producer.