As usual, my photographic questions and queries come through too late to really get much help from you, but if you happen to stop by here anytime soon...
I've been given an assignment that's really stressing me out more than a little. I have to do a photographic essay. As you all know a picture speaks a thousand words and for this assignment, I need to take a series of photographs (between 4 and 8) to tell a story with. It sounds simple enough, but by Monday evening, I need to have decided on a theme/subject and have drawn up storyboards, giving as much detail on my planning as possible. This includes location, background, lighting, lenses, subject, props - just about everything I need to plan this ahead of shooting it. I have a few reasonable ideas, but nothing that's really grabbed me...
From ideas like someone falling asleep whilst reading the paper, to making a dinner feast and having only one person sitting down to eat it, to various stages of a flower's (a lily) life, to melting Easter eggs in the garden and recording various stages of its disappearance, to a good plateful of food disappearing, to a bowl of Lindt balls being scoffed, to ironing a shirt... I just don't feel like any of these ideas really have the wow effect. And I realise that simple is better and that making it great really comes down to photography skills... I just don't know if, as the viewer, any of these ideas are all that thrilling.
What do you think? Do you have any other more brilliant ideas? It must tell a story without words. I've seen some beautiful ideas by a guy called Duane Michals, but it feels wrong to copy someone else's ideas.
Let me know your thoughts!
Sue XXX
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