Shadowing a Mesquite photographer.
I decided to shadow Ashleigh Gow for this assignment. The Mesquite assignment we were working on was a story about Tobin Lofts, she was taking pictures and I was writing the story. From the moment she found out about the story she made sure I share my story with her on Google Docs so she could have an idea of the story ‘s angle.
On August 30, we were given a tour of the recently opened apartments and an interview right after that. Even when I was the writer, I realized that she was asking questions as well. Her questions were to make sure she had information to later write a cutline.
She didn’t have a limit on how many photos she needed; she was just making sure she had a picture of all the amenities to latter decide which ones she was going to use.
I realized she wasn't deleting pictures or going through them during the assignment, she just looked at them to make sure she had the proper ISO for her lighting, but then she was quickly back at taking photos.
On publication day she was reading my story to make sure the photos she had chosen were still going with the angle of my story. She never once asked me any information about the the tour or people who came out on her pictures, she had it all down. In the end I learned I need to continue to take pictures and not look at them to see which ones I like, to gather my own information for my cutlines, understand the angle of a story to know what kind of pictures to take and to take comfortable shoes and clothes.
*Note: I did this assignment with Ashleigh Gow, but I forgot to take pictures. My pictures were taken during a different assignment with Alison Wadley.
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