{"id":64,"date":"2022-08-07T21:43:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/medianewsandreporting\/?post_type=chapter&p=64"},"modified":"2022-08-20T21:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T21:46:19","slug":"photographing-interesting-people-in-your-community-a-guide-to-taking-portraits-from-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ccconline.org\/medianewsandreporting\/chapter\/photographing-interesting-people-in-your-community-a-guide-to-taking-portraits-from-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"raw":"Chapter 16: Photographing Interesting People in Your Community: A Guide to Taking Portraits (from the New York Times)","rendered":"Chapter 16: Photographing Interesting People in Your Community: A Guide to Taking Portraits (from the New York Times)"},"content":{"raw":"

Follow these five steps to learn how to take photos that capture your subject\u2019s background and personality.<\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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Paulina Alexis, an Indigenous Canadian actress, at a skate park on the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation Reserve in Alberta, Canada. A\u00a0profile of Ms. Alexis<\/a>\u00a0appeared in The Times\u2019s Up Next series.\u00a0<\/span>Credit...Amber Bracken for The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Published Jan. 4, 2022 in the New York Times Lesson Plans series<\/a>, which provides free lesson plans, writing prompts and activities for students, all base on Times journalism.<\/div>\r\n<\/header>
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\r\n\r\nWhat can a photograph reveal about someone\u2019s personality, background, work, hobbies or passions?\r\n\r\nIn this step-by-step guide to taking portraits, we\u2019ll show you how you can use the camera on your smartphone to tell a person\u2019s story.\r\n\r\nThis is part of a suite of resources to help teachers and students participate in The Learning Network\u2019s first-ever\u00a0Profile Contest<\/a>, which invites young people to choose an interesting person in their community to research, interview, photograph and write about.\u00a0Here you can find a similar guide to conducting an interview and shaping the results into a compelling Q. and A.\u00a0<\/a>Both are designed for students and teachers who have no previous journalism or photography experience, though we hope many of the tips we offer will be useful to seasoned student journalists as well.\r\n\r\nIn this guide, we\u2019ll focus on \u201cenvironmental portraits,\u201d and we\u2019ll show you plenty of examples from The New York Times \u2014 starting with the one at the top of this post. Then, we\u2019ll walk you through taking environmental portraits of your own. We\u2019ll teach you some basic composition tips; share advice from a Times photographer on how to conduct a photo shoot; make suggestions for selecting, editing and captioning your photos; and challenge you with a few activities for practicing all these skills as you go.\r\n\r\nQuestions? Let us know in the comments, or by writing to LNFeedback@nytimes.com. We can\u2019t wait to see what you\u2019ll send us.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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