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A good photo, in addition to excellent performance in light and shadow, color, composition, but also inseparable from the content behind the presentation, the photo with a sense of story seems to speak.

Especially for humanities documentary photography, the stories behind the photos can often make people think and excavate the meaning behind them.

Today, I'd like to share with you how to make your photos more storytelling:

1. Authenticity what moves people about many news and documentary photography lies not only in the difficulty of shooting, but also in its authenticity. If you want to make your photos more storytelling, you also need to rely on authenticity.

Many excellent documentary photographers, their works are taken in the process of street sweeping, and many photos are taken subconsciously.

If we want to make our photos look authentic, we should be "predictive" when shooting, capture the movements and expressions of the subjects, and capture them in a natural state.

two。 Light and shadow contrast photography is the art of using light, and so is the photo with a sense of story.

Strong light and shadow contrast can make the picture look more textured, the subject more prominent, and more emotional.

I don't know if you have noticed that when depicting negative plots and characters, in many cases the faces of the characters are half-bright and half-dark, depicting the contradictory and dark psychological activities of the characters in the invisible, and rendering the negative atmosphere. At the same time, it also makes the picture more storytelling.

When we shoot at ordinary times, we can also pay attention to the expressive force of all kinds of light. Generally speaking, the side light is more suitable for expressing the texture of the object, and it can also make the picture have a certain light and shadow contrast.

3. Interactive photos with a sense of story are often interactive, or the different elements in the photos interact, or the subject interacts with the viewer in some way.

Remember the photo of Project Hope many years ago, the little girl's eyes were full of longing, which impressed people after seeing it, that is, the subject in the photo interacted with the viewer.

For characters, eyes, expressions and hands are all very good at expressing emotion and forming interactive elements. We can pay special attention to it when shooting characters.

For animals, plants and other objects, we can look for their anthropomorphic properties, such as special shape, posture, etc., we can also explore their essential characteristics to show the sense of story behind.

4. Grasp the details many film and television works are good at showing the story background, narrative plot development, rendering emotions through details, so is photography, through the description of the details can express a lot of information.

For example, there are a pair of slender and delicate hands in the picture, from which we can roughly guess that this is a pair of young girl's hands; if the ring finger of the left hand is wearing a ring, then the owner of the hand should be married, and the ring in the middle finger may just be engaged; if the finger is a little bloated, the ring embedded in the finger may indicate that the owner of the hand has been married for a long time and is no longer young. The rough fingers and obvious marks on the ring mean that the owner should have been married for a long time. Just a few different hand shots can reflect the sense of age.

Through the display of the details, we can form a sense of story to the picture, and at the same time retain the imagination space.

For objects with emotional and historical attributes, such as rings, watches, etc., we can pay more attention to their role in detail description.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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