A benefit of working with someone on a long term project is developing a sense of trust and collaboration that allows you to push the envelope of what each of you can do.

Bringing a strobe into the same setup as the previous lesson allows the shot to transform from a silhouette to a portrait.

The curving lines of the pool coupled with a radical angle allows for a number of graphic elements to come together in the final shot.

The ease and comfort of working together over a long period of time allows for better communication that can facilitate shots that would be otherwise nearly impossible to create.

Working in a portrait session can help track the evolution of the subject over time.

In going back to shoot the subject in the same setting again and again over time you can develop a series of photographs that are useful for comparing and contrasting against shots from other time periods.

It is important to include detail and cutaway shots in your sessions that helps to round out the larger body of work.

Over a long term project you may document various milestones where the subject is able to achieve goals that were previously out of reach.

A lot of the work in a long term project is repetition, where you keep coming back to shots you've done before to show the progression, but also find ways to keep it fresh and move in new directions.

Bill wraps up the class with some reflection on how working on a long term project like this can enrich your life in many unexpected ways.