Welcome to This Week's Edition of The Carty Method Magazine!
This week, we challenged photographers to shoot an End Page Photo within their niche.
An End Page Photo serves as the final visual note in a magazine — a thoughtful outro that shifts the energy from bold and attention-grabbing to something more reflective and contemplative.
It sparks reflection or leaves a sense of continuity, inviting readers to linger on the story’s final impression.
Mastering this skill is crucial for photographers looking to create impactful narratives that resonate long after the last page is turned.
Ready to be inspired by this week's photographers and their incredible end page photos?
Let’s begin!
Assignment Brief
CARTY gives a tight brief at the end of his photo review shows which tells us shooters what we have to shoot exactly for the following weeks review.
Here is this assignment exactly how he shares it.
“This weeks Assignment: The End Page”.
"The editorial end page image serves as a powerful visual punctuation mark, subtly bookending the entire narrative of a magazine.
Much like an “outro,” it shifts the energy from a bold, attention-grabbing spread to a more understated and contemplative closing, sparking reflection or a sense of continuity.
For photographers, this last-page moment is an opportunity to reinforce the editorial’s message through subtle yet intentional storytelling.”
Jay V
What inspired your approach to creating your end page image? Did you draw from a particular emotion, theme, or experience?
Looking at inspo from pintrest and building a moodboard inside of millstone gravitated towards dark and moody.
Were there moments when you felt stuck or unsure about your direction? How did you push through?
Felt stuck moving form continuous light to strobes and learning that my 10yr camera doesn’t natively sync with the strobes which added a extra learning curve on creating the mood that I wanted while learning how to use strobes to begin with honestly thought I might had to rethink the use of strobes altogether.
So I watch some vids on youtube on alternate methods of using flash photography and learned about max sync speeds and ultimately had to make sure the sensor on the ad200pro had a clear line of sight to the on camera flash and sometimes the camera and strobe wont always be on the same page giving me complete black images.
What did this assignment teach you about visual storytelling or creative expression?
It taught me about scene curation with the use of props, where to place the light and the use of the snoot and a grid that I 3d printed by the way can direct the light even further.
How do you see yourself applying what you learned from this assignment in future projects?
Honestly I see myself using what i learned in all of my projects and sticking with strobes for photos its very addicting and continuous light for vids.
Social Media Handles:
Instagram: highonframeshq
Behance: Highonframes
Gerrard Danso
What inspired your approach to creating your end page image? Did you draw from a particular emotion, theme, or experience?
Family and Legacy.
The image of this fisherman's son helping his father taps into family bonds and legacy.
It conveys a sense of tradition, heritage, and the passing down of knowledge from one generation to the next.
Were there moments when you felt stuck or unsure about your direction? How did you push through?
Yes there was, but at that moment I first acknowledge my feelings.
It's normal to experience creative blocks, and acknowledging them is the first step to overcoming them.
What did this assignment teach you about visual storytelling or creative expression?
Composition and framing: The assignment encourages experimentation with composition, lighting, and framing to create visually appealing images that tell a story.
How do you see yourself applying what you learned from this assignment in future projects?
Integrating visual elements: Incorporate visual storytelling techniques, such as composition, lighting, and framing, to create engaging and emotive images in my future projects.
Social Media Handles:
Instagram: stayfocusphotography_official
Youtube: Gerrard Danso
Behance: Gerrard Danso
Ian Martin
Social Media Handles:
Website: ianmartin.photos
Instagram: ianmartin.photos
Anton Duris
What inspired your approach to creating your end page image? Did you draw from a particular emotion, theme, or experience?
I drew from the emotion of departing the station.
Leaving your “dream destination”, ending the story, yet realising that a new story begins.
Were there moments when you felt stuck or unsure about your direction? How did you push through?
My initial idea was to shoot at the railway station to capture the timetable with departures.
However, the particular station didn’t have the table at the right spot for me.
So I walked around and improvised. And then I saw the railroad tracks - bingo!
What did this assignment teach you about visual storytelling or creative expression?
Realizing what the end page could be about: A car form behind, snowboarder untying his board,…
Interesting.
How do you see yourself applying what you learned from this assignment in future projects?
I can imagine using this approach at the end of my travel photography stories.
Every journey ends somewhere.
The idea of an end page gives the story its cherry on top of a cake.
Social Media Handles:
Instagram: antondurisphoto
Best In Show!
Charles Fortin
What inspired your approach to creating your end page image? Did you draw from a particular emotion, theme, or experience?
Nothing speaks last page like sunset, so that was a no brainer for me.
From there, it was about finding a simple yet powerful composition with my subject.
Were there moments when you felt stuck or unsure about your direction? How did you push through?
The shoot was really flowy.
We tried a few locations, with different angles for each.
What did this assignment teach you about visual storytelling or creative expression?
I never considered the need for a back cover before, so it was a fun revelation that the photos don't always have to be cover-perfect and can be more genuine sometimes.
How do you see yourself applying what you learned from this assignment in future projects?
Always keep the back cover in my shotlist when going out in the field.
Social Media Handles:
Instagram: theroamingbull
Website: Charles Fortin
Francis Jeffery
What inspired your approach to creating your end page image? Did you draw from a particular emotion, theme, or experience?
First of all it only made sense to shoot the same model due to the fact that the book/magazine features what's on the front cover.
He is a retired professor from the Roman Catholic University of Notre Dame. We found this tiny church attached to one of the school buildings on campus about a week earlier and I scouted out the location twice before shooting anything there.
The theme is him being old and communicating with the saint about weather or not he'll make it into heaven.
He is waving the bible to show that he's read it and is trying to prove that throughout his life he's done everything it says to do.
Were there moments when you felt stuck or unsure about your direction? How did you push through?
Yes.
We actually did at least 2 shoots for this submission.
The first one took place in an empty classroom where I had him write "All retirement and no work makes jack a fun boy" similar to what that guy in the movie the shining repeatedly writes on the typewriter except since he was a music professor I had him write on a dry erase board that had staffs on it and then play the piano as a pose, compositionally this shoot didn't work as well as compositions from my test shots of the miniature church and so we went with plan B the next day.
He was also very sick on the day we did the shoot in the church which wound up helping with the story telling because he tried to look happy for the pictures but he truthfully wasn't so he wound up looking somewhere in-between being happy and sad like someone would be if they were wondering weather or not they were going to go to heaven.
Also heaven has lots to do with the afterlife which certainly happens in retirement and therefore makes sense to take place on the end page of a book that is about a professor's career.
What did this assignment teach you about visual storytelling or creative expression?
It taught me that there's a tiny church on campus that is much more beautiful than the main church on campus.
Also this is recognizable private property (public access though).
So you might want to consider getting permission from Notre Dame University before publishing this for commercial purposes.
How do you see yourself applying what you learned from this assignment in future projects?
I've got a future potential model who agreed to model for me who has tattoos allover themselves who I think might be a better model for this church than this retired professor due to the fact that their tattoos could be juxtaposed with the stained glass in the background.
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