From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City

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Further inspiration

Further inspiration

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in New York City

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Further inspiration

As we're approaching the close of this installment I thought it would be worthwhile to take a few minutes to share with you some places that you can go, some photographers that you can look at for further inspiration. Now you may remember one of those introductory movies when I said one of our goals in going to New York is to be inspired by this location, to become familiar with New York, to learn from New York. Another goal was to figure out how can we create portraits within this context. Well, moving from that how then can we gain some inspiration from New York, and from creating portraits here? One of things that I think that we can do, is we can look to other great photographers that were either born or raised or had their studios in New York. For example, Richard Avedon. Richard Avedon is a fascinating photographer. He has a number of great books out. And his photography is really strong. And so often we look at photographs from guys like this online and what's happens is when…

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