Here we go again.. Editorial Photography

Editorial photography

Brief and initial ideas

Brief

When first looking at the brief and hearing what our project was based on i was excited editorial photography has always appealed to me although i am not well educated in the field and i haven't intentionally set out to photograph in this style. 

Our theme is around the 'extraordinary'. Everyone within my group are to produce 5 images each in any style, size, type of paper and camera used. It is completely up to us which is a new element for all of us as up until now there was always guidelines and a strict regime for us. The camera, paper and size of paper was always set for us from the start, although having free reign can be quite scary i am looking forward to the challenge.

Once we have all taken and got our final five images, an external editor will professional put together a collaborative magazine using all our images. 

Initial ideas

Initially i was at a loss for what i could do for this project, we got told to not over think and to not go far to get the images because quite often you can get great images that are closer to home.

Then this brought me to put aside thinking too hard into it and i just focused on what kind of style i wanted to do it in. I love portraits of people and they way they look especially in medium format. So from this i started thinking about who i could take a portrait of that was to me extraordinary.

For me after a little thought this brought me to look at extraordinary people that are already around me. My nana and granddad to me are both very extraordinary people from when they got together at 17, when they got married at 19 and through their children being born and through their many, many serious illnesses.