From the course: Learning Photojournalism and Photo Essays
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Shooting a photo story for work
From the course: Learning Photojournalism and Photo Essays
Shooting a photo story for work
- Most of my photo stories were produced in one of two ways. They were either produced because it was something that I cared about and I wanted to do as a personal project or they were produced because I was on assignment for a magazine or a newspaper. And right now, I just want to talk a little bit about doing photo stories for work, meaning that they are for a client, whether it's a web based publication or a print publication. And the first thing that's really different between shooting for a client as opposed to just doing your personal project is the client or the editor is really gonna put some restrictions on your photo story, which doesn't necessarily need to be a negative thing. Sometimes having those restrictions lets you be creative within the walls that they've put up around you. The most obvious restrictions you're gonna have is the quantity of photographs that they're gonna need for their final product. If it's going into a newspaper print edition, you know they don't…
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