From the course: Photo Essay: Coney Island

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Setting up the first day of the Coney Island shoot

Setting up the first day of the Coney Island shoot

From the course: Photo Essay: Coney Island

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Setting up the first day of the Coney Island shoot

- Hey everybody, as some of you will probably notice we're at the world famous Coney Island and I've chosen this venue for this course because it encapsulates really just all the challenges a street or any photographer would wanna have in a shooting situation. But with great challenge comes great rewards, there's so much going on here. There's the emotion, the energy that we'll be able to try and capture here. The color. We want to be able to capture all the elements that tell a story because that's the approach that I generally take for all my shooting. When I'm in a situation I want to be able to sort of tell the story that only a still photograph is able to tell, a series of still photographs. And that's how I'm gonna approach that. There's so many incredible visual elements here in front of us that we'll be able to point our cameras at. There's all of the people aspect, of course, you're gonna see kids and you're gonna see older people, people on dates, there's gonna be fights and…

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