Introducing the 60-minute photo essay

(upbeat music) - Hi, my name's Paul Taggart, and I'm a photographer. I'm here in Seattle, because I wanted to do a photo essay on some topic. I wasn't sure when I arrived in town what that topic was gonna be, but the point of this course was to teach you guys a skill that I find incredibly useful as a photo journalist for newspapers and magazines. That skill is shooting a photo essay very quickly. So, I went out on the streets of Seattle looking for a project that would fit this.

I found a pie shop. This pie shop was owned by this very cool guy named Tony. Thanks for letting me come take pictures of your cool spot here. - You bet. - [Paul] When I first arrived in Tony's shop, I'd never seen the inside of his bakery. I'd never actually met Tony. So, I knew, once I arrived there, I had to sort of take a look at the whole space, and very quickly make an agenda of what kind of photographs I needed, and where in the location I needed to do those. I knew I needed establishing shots, wide shots, detail shots, process shots, because we are baking a pie.

I also wanted to do a couple formal portraits. All these are things that are going through my head when I first walk through that door of a new assignment. - That's my horrible look. - [Paul] Right. (both laugh) Join me while I document Tony's pie shop. From meeting Tony for the first time, to seeing his location, and then documenting everything in a very short amount of time, and then editing the entire project all in the course of a day.