This week, I dare you to tell us a story without a pencil or paper. Only your camera works.
Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photo and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog by putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. from portraits to macro photography, landscapes, black-and-white photography, or babies. The themes will be offered on Saturday, so you have the whole weekend to work. You’ll have one week to upload your photo (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that most captivated me and propose a new theme, and so on?
- Telling a story with a single image seems much more difficult than it really is and much more important than it seems.
- That your photos are memorized.
- That they inspire emotions or feelings in the viewer.
- That they attract attention and that they do not look like simple photos.
- Images.
- Of a product catalog.
- They should tell a story.
This is one of the most important lessons for any photographer, so this week I challenge you to practice narrative photography. You’ll have to observe, listen and feel a lot. When you see there’s a story worth telling, shoot!To help you, I leave you a link to this comprehensive guide to storytelling through photography. And don’t forget that every story must have a title!
As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge, take your photo to the Facebook wall of the photographer’s blog: In the photo description, please mention the keyword “Narrative Photography Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.
For those who are not from Facebook, I have enabled the participation of new social networks.
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For those who like to read with their eyes? Meet a beautiful gallery of visual stories. Thank you all for your grain of sand and congratulations, you have done a great job, I await you in the next challenge!
Although every time it is difficult to select an image, I will highlight this week that of Pablo Herrero Fuente, “A summer dream. ” What would Sabina say? There are many reasons. I like everything. The composition is impeccable, a backlight that draws the beautiful silhouette of the girl where the same window (or rather the light that enters through the window) has been used to create a natural framing that further emphasizes the center of interest. Well applied the rule of three thirds and a successful vertical framing that stylizes the figure of the woman. It looks like a grayscale photograph, but it is not. On the hands and on the hair, you can see in a very subtle way that this is a color image but the strong contrast from the backlight makes it appear black and white. In other words, if we talk about the “technical” part, if we talk about the soul of the photo, its story as requested in the challenge, the image tells a beautiful story between the woman and the bird, the details and the color of the story writes everyone’s imagination, yes, if we put it into words we wouldn’t get a story as magical as the one in the photo. Congratulations, Pablo, for this wonderful visual story!