From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Portraiture

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Solution: Person in place

Solution: Person in place

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Solution: Person in place

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- Alright, hey. Welcome back. In this movie, I want to talk about my approach to the challenge of photographing a person within an architectural space. This challenge is really difficult. One of the things that I've found in my own photographic life is that this is one of those type of photographs that takes a lot of practice. And it's almost one of those skills that you can practice again and again and again, and you can continuously get better at it. A lot of times what happens is people create images like this on vacation. They go to a beautiful city and they see a wonderful monument. They ask someone to stand in front of it, and the photograph is kind of lifeless and dull. What you can do is ask the subject to somehow get within the frame or position or compose the image so they feel like they're almost surrounded by this architectural element. And that's what I wanted to try to do with this image. So I had a friend show up to a location. It was a spot that I had been to before…

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