question:  According to the author, what makes it difficult for the author to capture a subject's soul?
context: Just another free soul In his foreword to the book, Lessig writes that you understand your subjects “by learning to see them in a certain way.” I’m trying to capture what I think they look like, which is many times a minority of their typical expressions, or their typical stance. Some photographers are almost medical, and are going after a perfect portrait. To me, uploading a picture that is not an easily recognizable picture of that person defeats the point, which I’m working toward, to try to express who they are. On the other hand, professional photographers usually have a subject whom they don’t know personally, so they end up having to try to capture an image that they’ve created based on who they think the person is or how they want that person to appear. What I’m trying to do is free someone’s soul from his or her image. And then, it also has the meaning that you are unencumbered legally, that you are free, as in ‘free software.’ There’s a paradox: with many people’s Wikipedia articles to which I’ve contributed, when it comes to the picture, many of these people don’t have any free photos of themselves on the web, so while they are “notable” on Wikipedia, their images aren’t free of the copyright of the photographer, or the institution who hired the photographer to take the picture. Often, even the subject of the article can’t make an image available to the Wikimedia/Wikipedia community. This means that a lot of people who have a Net presence have a legally encumbered Net presence. The third part of the pun is that, since I’m asking for a model release from the subjects, I’m asking everyone to be much more open and giving about their image than most people typically are. Of course people can abuse that, just like they can abuse anything. In a way, giving up your image and allowing anyone to use it: it’s the ultimate gift.
output:  People's tendency to behave uncharacteristically in front of a camera
options:  People's tendency to overemphasize the qualities they want others to associate with them  People's tendency to behave uncharacteristically in front of a camera  People's tendency to refuse a photographer access to the most painful moments of their lives  People's tendency to forget that the photographer is even in the room