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Executing the shoot for a photo story

Executing the shoot for a photo story

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Executing the shoot for a photo story

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- Now that you've planned and scheduled your photo story, it's time to go out on location and begin shooting. It's essential to get a variety of different kinds of images in order to keep your photo story dynamic. I recommend you get detail shots, establishing shots, action shots, portraits, and even some quiet moments to really make it a full story, something that's interesting. What I'd like to do is show you one project that I did, one sort of small story on a Chinese restaurant in New York. And just a quick note, this is kind of an interesting project because, um, it was just an assignment for a newspaper and all they really needed was one image. But I recommend to all of you guys, even if you're just going out to take one photograph, shoot all your assignments as if they're going to be a story. You're gonna to get a lot more photographs, and the types of photographs you're gonna get are gonna be more interesting. And so I'd like you to take notice while we're looking at this…

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