Weekly Challenge 120: Narrative Photography

This week I challenge you to tell us a story without pencil or paper. Just use your camera.

How does it work? (Reminder)

Every week I will propose a new challenge, it is a topic that you will have to capture in a photograph and upload it to the Facebook page of the blog, putting in the description the keyword that I will indicate for each topic. The themes will be varied, from portraits to Macro photography, through landscapes, black and white photography, or babies. The topics will be proposed on Saturdays, so that you have all the Weekend to work them. You will have one week to upload your photograph (one photo per participant), until Friday of the following week. On Friday or Saturday I will update the article with the photo that has captivated me the most and I will propose a new topic, and so on…

Weekly Challenge 120: Narrative Photography

Telling a story with a single image sounds much more difficult than it really is and much more important than it may seem. For your photos to be remembered, for them to inspire emotions or feelings in the viewer, for them to grab attention and not look like simple photos from a product catalogue, they have to 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 will have to observe a lot, listen and feel. When you see that there is a story that deserves to be told, shoot! To help you, I leave you a link to this complete guide to tell stories through photography. And don’t forget that every story must have a title!

As usual, to participate in this week’s challenge upload your photo to the Facebook wall from the Photographer’s Blog: In the description of the photo please mention the keyword “Narrative Photography Challenge” followed by a title of your choice.

Alternative Means to Participate

For those who do not be from Facebook I have enabled new social networks to participate.

• Flickr: accessing the Group Mural of the Photographer’s Blog and uploading the photo directly. Give your photo a caption and be sure to mention “Narrative Photography Challenge” in the same.
• Twitter: uploading the photo directly to Twitter with the hashtag #BdFNarrativePhotographyChallenge

Happy photography.

Update

For those who like to read with their eyes… I present a beautiful gallery of visual stories. Thank you all for your grain of sand and congratulations, you’ve done a great job, I’ll wait for you in the next challenge!

Although each time you make it more difficult to select an image, this week I am going to highlight the one by Pablo Herrero Fuente, «A summer dream». As Sabina would say…there are plenty of reasons. I like everything. The composition is impeccable, a backlight that draws the beautiful silhouette of the girl where the same window has been used (or rather the light that enters through the window) to make a natural frame that highlights the center of interest even more. 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’s not. In her hands and hair you can see in a very subtle way that it is a color image but that the strong contrast of the backlight makes it look like black and white. That is if we talk about the “technical” part, if we talk about the soul of the photo, its history 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 write the imagination of each one, yes, if we put it into words we would not get a story as magical as the one that the photo tells. Congratulations, Pablo, for this wonderful visual story!