As is my wont, (or good habit), I check the meanings of words in my titles or works about which I mean to "snark".
It appears that, in the thirty years since I was a full time corporate wife (and spending a lot of time with professional automotive-world photographers), the meaning of "Nostril Shot" has changed.
Words will do that. It is a pity that AI is so literal.
Once one gets past AI's arrogant assumption that the stupid searcher meant "nasal" and not "nostril", and that the searcher is searching for substances to insert rapidly into facial orifices, one finds that, these days, deliberately immortalizing someone else's nostrils is an art form.
In my day, which was before cameras made it easy to edit-out unwanted elements, "a nostril shot" was a serious annoyance for a professional, and referred to the unfortunate sudden appearance of an unwanted foreign body part into an important portrait, or shot of a show car.
However, my nostril research was a gold mine, especially for authors who might be doing their back matter portraits themselves. Alas, I suppose I need to look up "back matter". Thank goodness, it means what I intend it to mean.
Chris Gampat shares some great tips, and a helpful diagram.... and a what-not-to-do photograph!
For Blurb, Dan Milnor (a name that the AI "help" on this platform would love to edit!!!!) shares photography tips but not an url for giving Dan credit.
But, I found him on YouTube and he is worth a second look.
For Blurb, he tells photographers to use the view finder; to avoid overshooting; to refrain from copying someone else's location photo; to eschew posting in real time; to be sure to edit your work; and to print your photos.
That last tip reminds me of the advice to authors to read their prose aloud as a means of editing.
Final tip:
Angela Hoy of Book Locker and Writers' Weekly shares a list of gigs for freelance creatives
All the best,
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