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Researching a subject for your photo story

Researching a subject for your photo story

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Researching a subject for your photo story

- Now that you've picked your subject matter, it's time to start researching it. If you're photographing something close to home like your family, you clearly don't need to do a lot of research on your subjects themselves. They're you're family. But what you can do, and I recommend that you do, is you go look at what other photographers have done on the topic. For instance, tons of photographers have done incredible photo books about their own families. You should go to the library, check that out, and find out the way that they've addressed the idea of photographing their family as well as the style in which they've done it. You may find out that it will inspire you to do your project a little bit different. For those of you that are gonna go outside of the home and photograph something a little bit less familiar to you, photograph some actual strangers for your subject matter, then I recommend that you become a complete expert on whatever that subject matter is. There's lots of ways…

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