From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City

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Sketching and shooting

Sketching and shooting

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City

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Sketching and shooting

All right, are you ready for your second assignment? Here it goes. There are couple of different elements for this assignment. The first one is that I want you to pick a busy location to photograph someone that you admire, that you respect, that you like. It could be a brother, a co-worker, a colleague, a mentor. Pick someone that fascinates you. Why a busy location? I want you to photograph them in a busy location because that is really difficult. Now it is easy to photograph someone in a park with no one around, with nice light and beautiful trees or flowers. That's simple. But if you want to really learn, you have to get beyond simple, you have to get to the complex, and how in a complex situation do you create simple photographs. Now if you can do that you can really create something quite special. So again, it's a busy location and you are going to photograph someone you admire or respect. How then do I want you to approach the shoot? Before you do the shoot, I want you to…

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