From the course: 5-Day Photo Challenge: Portraiture

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Challenge: Conceptual portrait

Challenge: Conceptual portrait

- Welcome to the fifth and final challenge in this course where we look at how we can go out on location and work with natural and available light and photograph people. This challenge is going to be perhaps one of the most difficult and most interesting challenges and here's what it is. What I want you to do is to come up with some sort of a concept or an idea and try to create a photograph which illustrates the concept or idea. Let me show you a few of my own photographs where I've tried to do this in the past. Here's one photograph, this image is of Kelly Slater with a surfboard and this image is really about balance. Here's another one, which is about "time". Another photograph, which is about the blank canvas, and yet, one more, which is all about the idea that creativity is a fight and an adventure. So sometimes, you may want to try to find this concept or idea in other situations, maybe you want to base your photograph on a quote. Here's a photograph that's based on this quote…

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