From the course: Photo Essay: An Artist at Work

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The meeting and first shots

The meeting and first shots

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The meeting and first shots

(MUSIC). I've shot a lot of photo essays, and a lot of photo stories all over the world for different magazine clients and newspapers. And also as collaborations with the people that I'm shooting. And I know there's certain elements that I've gotta get. I don't exactly how many pictures I'm going to have in my final essay, but I do know that I want a good number of maybe 10 to 30 so I can use it for different purposes. And I can also have a fun time playing with those when editing with the sequence. So that said, I know that I'm going to want to get some landscape pictures to establish a place. I'm going to want to get different styles of portraiture, maybe some environmental portraiture. And some more formal portraits with some lighting and different vantage points. probably some detail shots of like, living spaces or if he has artwork, we've got one that shoots artwork in some interesting ways. And so we try to get all of the different genres and styles of photography. that way, I…

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