Jason Row Photography<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nEdit, Edit and Edit Some More<\/h3>\n To create a great story you will need to shoot many more images than you will actually use. As well as having a plan for the story, keep your eyes open for little moments that help define that story. Use different focal lengths, different perspectives. If shooting something specific, use a wide angle and a zoom. Look for close details that can add to the story.<\/p>\n
When it comes to editing the story. Go through all the images in chronological order removing those that do not work. Use an image management program such as Lightroom to organise the timeline of your story. Look for shots taken at similar times that work well visually together, allowing the viewer\u2019s eye to flow easily from one image to the next, very much as if they were reading a book.<\/p>\n
Because we are telling the story through the medium of stills, try to reduce your story down to 10-20 high impact images that can tell the whole story.<\/p>\n
Although we might not notice it, we are often subconsciously creating photographic stories when we shoot. With a little more pre-planning we can take our stories to a new level, taking the viewer on a journey through the scenes, events and emotions we encountered when creating that story.<\/p>\n
What Next?<\/h3>\n Get out an shoot. Upload your photo story to your website and leave a link in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Photography is a visual form of storytelling. Be it a single image, a montage or an entire sequence we can relate a story to the people viewing the images. There are so many forms of photography that are ideally suited to storytelling. Documentary and photo journalism are the obvious ones but think a little outside […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4990,"featured_media":298478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[59169],"yoast_head":"\n
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