From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Portraiture
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Challenge: In their element
From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Portraiture
Challenge: In their element
- Hi, my name is Chris Orwig, and welcome to challenge number three. I'm really excited about this challenge. This one's all about photographing someone in their element. What I mean by that is, what you wanna do is think about your own passions and interests, and then try to find someone who maybe shares one of those passions and interests, and then photograph that person in their element. For example, I love the sport of surfing. I love the ocean. It's so beautiful out here today. What I like to do is to photograph surfers right at the water's edge. Let me show you a few pictures that I've captured in the past, a few examples of this. Here you can see with these photographs, the people are in their element, they're in their zone. One of the reasons why you want to try to create a picture like this is it puts someone at ease. For example, let's say that you're really into golfing. Well, if you ask a golfer just to stand there, they're gonna stand there kind of awkward and not know…
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