Discover the challenges and creative opportunities behind telling a story with a mix of environmental and backdrop portraits.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Scouting the location for the portraits of performers
- Documenting clowns preparing for an act
- Posing and documenting the clowns in character
- Setting up and photographing unicyclists
- Posing portraits with the unicyclists
- Sequencing the portraits and picking selects
- Photographing a performer in a rehearsal space
- Documenting a performer with costume as emphasis
- Photographing an aerial performer as an athlete
- Photographing a trapeze artist, posed and candid
- Taking the iconic portrait of a ringmaster
- Shooting the first portraits of the gymnast
- Photographing a gymnast in the performance environment
- Sequencing and picking selects from the portrait shoot
- Shooting portraits of a knife-throwing couple
- Reviewing the finale, all the best portraits of the circus performers
Taught by
Paul Taggart