SPRING 2022: 30: ASSIGNMENT THIRTY: PEOPLE IN SPACES

2022 SPRING: 30: ASSIGNMENT THIRTY: PEOPLE IN SPACES

DUE SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

You have been contacted by “Interior Design” magazine. They want you to shoot a promo shot for an upcoming trade show in your town.

They also want you to match their style with something similar in YOUR area. No matter what, there has to be somewhere you can make a photograph that will figure into their design work. From interiors to art installations to decorated walls… they have used all of those elements in their work before.

Your assignment then is to look at what has gone before and do a shot of something that will fit into this style and aesthetic adaptation.

You will need a killer location.
Make sure the location will support visual excitement. This is not the time for a strip-mall shoot, but rather something new and glitzy.

You will need a model / subject / human.
Either gender is fine, and the subject may not even be engaging with you. Note how the subjects in the examples below are there for scale, interest, and to break up the power of the architecture to make it seem more human-inflected.

The wardrobe will be very important.
Be very sure your wardrobe for the talent will allow them to stand out from the landscape. Note red dress against the white building below.

Styling can be kept to a minimum by making the human smaller in the image.
This is NOT a portrait. In fact, we do not care to even meet this person. They are there to be a prop, to add a bit of life to steel, concrete, and glass.

Here are ten covers for you to review. Your shot needs to fit in well.

As you can see, the images have a lot of design in them as well as featuring interesting spaces – both interior and exterior. Also notice that they are OK with blurring the humans. You can do that as well if you wish, it is obviously not a demand.

Light and design.
Shadow.
Texture.

This is a deceptively easy image so sketch it, scout it, and prepare for a perfect shoot.