How To Choose A Photo Subject

Video Transcript

" Hello I am Chris Conklin on behalf of expertvillage.com. And that brings us to Planto shoot. Now, just like anything else you have to plan for your shoot regardless of what it is. You are going out on vacation, you are visiting family, you are going to go out and shoot wilderness. You are going to the beach, amusement parks, so people take pictures all different types of places. Have an idea of exactly what kind of pictures that you are looking for and then tell a story. Now, what I mean by telling a story is from the beginning to the end of photo set. You should have a beginning, a middle and an end. So, whoever is viewing the photographs will be able to see the story develop as it went through. As an example if you are shooting a wedding, okay where you are going to want to shoot people coming in to the facility at which the wedding is taking place then you are going to go and take the set up aspects of the wedding, then of course the bride’s and groom’s family, the bridesmaids, the groomsmen, the bride and groom, the ceremony itself, the leaving of the facility and then going into the vehicle that they depart in, different aspects of the ceremony and then people leaving. So, what you have there is you have got a complete story that tells everything, but now you have to plan that story. Who are you going to shoot, what are you going to shoot, at what intervals do you want to shoot, what kind of shots are you looking for. Have all that jotted down in a checklist so you can just pull it out and refer to it, because when you get to the event things get crazy, things change, it gets busy, chaotic, frantic, you are going to forget, so the best thing to do is plan ahead like you do anything. Every time you do something, you have a plan whether you realize it or not, you don’t just go out shopping and say I am going to leave the house, I don’t know where I am going, I will get there and I will figure it out then or you go to the grocery store at least you have something in mind that you went to the store to accomplish or to achieve. So you will arrive at the store, you are picking up your product, you are paying for them, you are leaving the store. You have just told the complete story that the viewer can look at. "