From the course: Photography Foundations: Refining Your Skills
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Photo essay blueprint
From the course: Photography Foundations: Refining Your Skills
Photo essay blueprint
- Looking back in photographic history, there's arguably no one more passionate about his work than the stories that W. Eugene Smith created. Look up some of his classic essays for Life Magazine. Country Doctor, Nurse Midwife, Spanish Village, you'll know what I mean. As creative and amazing much of the work is, Life Magazine had kind of a blueprint, a formula that was often encouraged to ensure the photographers would come back with a variety of imagery that they needed to tell the whole story. Now this can be useful because applying this simple framework can help you create a stronger set of images. Especially if you're new to the genre. And I'll just go over some of the things that they talk about. So the signature image, obviously the signature image is really important. It's often the strongest image. It's often the most story telling image. It is the storefront that will attract the viewer to more of your story. So you want it to be attention getting, you want it to have impact,…
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