Finally made the decision!!

Finally I made the decision. It was a tough one – picking out of 9 good options which I found each one really interesting. I decided to go for Editorial Portrait Photography. Which requires me to have a set of environmental portraits of 4-6 Creative Professionals for a magazine feature on the Creative Industries.

Creative Professionals – what does this really mean? Who are they?

A creative professional who is also known as a creative specialist is a person who is employed for the extraction of skills in creative endeavors. Creative professions include writing, art, design, theater, television, radio, motion pictures, related crafts, as well as marketing, strategy, scientific research and development, product development, engineering, some types of teaching and curriculum design, and more.

Source taken from Wikipedia.

So who do I really want to photograph, what type of people would I like to photograph. There are lots of things I need to think about what I need to do. Creating a plan to keep on track on it.

So to start my project out I decided to create a mood board. This helps me to think of ideas but is also a very good inspiration. As it lets me look back at when I feel like I am stuck and I don’t know what i’m doing or I feel like I’m not going anywhere with my images – doing shoots but they all look the same with no improvement.

So this is a mood board I made with the images i gather from Google images when i search for Editorial Environmental Portraits. When starting a project i always look for inspiration in the way the compose the images, whether it’s a close up, mid range image or showing a lot of space around the person.

From looking through a lot of images i decided to pick those ones because i feel like they are good examples of editorial environmental portraits. Each one of the images speak so much for themselves which i feel like its important for your photograph to be able to do without you needing to add text or captions.

From looking at those im wondering who should i photograph. Should i photograph one person in more different locations or maybe focus on different jobs and get them in their working environment.

I’m still thinking about my concept and what i would like to do for this. I feel like doing a practise shoot will let me decide this.