Tell a story with 3 to 5 photographs
Goal: To tell a story with a few compelling images. It might be a story of a process (doing something), or a reaction, or of time, or season, etc...you need to figure out a theme. These will be placed on a 8x10 sheet with a headline and turned in electronically.
A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewers imagination. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop the action.
1st Photo: establish characters and location.
2nd Photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.
3rd Photo: involve the characters in the situation.
4th photo: build to a probable outcome.
5 photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.
Idea: Ernest Hemingway was asked/dared to write a life history in 6 words. Several months later he wrote:
For sale.
Baby shoes.
Never worn.
Shoot these photos and bring them to class to finish an 8x10 with all the photos placed on a nice background color, gradient, or blurred background and your photo on top with a headline that sums up your storytelling using photography!
A good story has characters in action with a beginning, middle, and an ending. Fortunately a lot of information can be given in a single photograph. Location, time, and atmosphere aid viewers imagination. Keep standards of pictorial beauty, but pack as many story telling elements in one photograph as possible to develop the action.
1st Photo: establish characters and location.
2nd Photo: create a situation with possibilities of what might happen.
3rd Photo: involve the characters in the situation.
4th photo: build to a probable outcome.
5 photo: have a logical, but surprising, end.
Idea: Ernest Hemingway was asked/dared to write a life history in 6 words. Several months later he wrote:
For sale.
Baby shoes.
Never worn.
Shoot these photos and bring them to class to finish an 8x10 with all the photos placed on a nice background color, gradient, or blurred background and your photo on top with a headline that sums up your storytelling using photography!