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Photographing an iconic city or just a hometown

Photographing an iconic city or just a hometown

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Photographing an iconic city or just a hometown

This week on The Practicing Photographer, I'm standing here in San Francisco in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. It's the big red thing out there. A iconic sight in San Francisco along with cable cars and roads of colorful Victorian houses. The kind of images that you think, boy, that must make San Francisco a really great place to shoot. And I'm going to argue this week that actually these things can make San Francisco a really difficult place to shoot. For a reason that can actually trouble you no matter where your shooting. So here in San Francisco, there are a lot of things that we've all seen in photos and TV shows and movies. And, of course, it's really fun to go out and shoot those things. You can, in fact, by books of images and their locations telling you exactly where you can go and get specific photos in San Francisco and lots of other cities. And there is merit to recreating a photograph that you've seen somewhere else. It's interesting to learn how to solve problems that…

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