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A picture can say a thousand words. I’m sure you have heard this before. However, there is a very good reason this saying was made. Pictures are very powerful at telling stories. If you can take pictures to tell interesting and captivating stories, your photos will become much more interesting and viewers will become addicted and craving for more of your photos. This article will give you some info on how to tell stories in your shots.

The first step in creating stories in your photos is developing a main concept to work on. Concepts could be things such as pleasure, peace, happiness, anger, etc.

After you get the concept you want to tell the story on now you are going to focus on symbols. Symbols are devices that represent things such as the concepts above. For example, flowers could be a symbol for love.

After you have this down you are going to want to think of a story tell that has to do with a flower and is related to love or whatever concept you have. For example, you could have two flowers positioned so that they are kissing or two flowers positioned so they’re holding hands.

Of course, the example above is a somewhat strange and quirky style of photographing. This would work great for a quirky photographing style. You can try different ways to position the flowers for different styles of photography.

Overall, simple stories are the best to work with. Harder and more complex stories are difficult to show in a single image and can be hard for people to understand. You could, however, set up a series of pictures that tell a story.

Al Sanchez has a Free Photo 101 E-course that teaches digital photography. He also has another free program on how to Sell Your Pictures Online

Tags: Digital Photography, Storytelling

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