Photo Essays

I learned a few tips on how to take a series of photos and set a story to it.

A few tips I found important was to find a topic that people will be interesting in. And not to choose something that happens every once in a while. I chose something that had to do with our schools dance. I'm really hoping that it will tell a story and not just show something that happened in your day. Another tip is to show the 'real story'. I plan on doing this by taking pictures at random times. If you look through pictures of people getting ready you see them getting their hair and make up done, picking out dresses but you don't see how much stress it is.

I also looked through examples of photo stories such as the mudslide that killed hundreds of people, and also the Miss America pageant then& now. I liked looking through pictures because even though the pictures had captions, it was also fun looking at the pictures and thinking of your own story, and just guessing what was happening.