By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
By now, we know the purpose of story is to confront our internal worldviews with the world through the external struggles of characters (episode 1). We know how stories are told to keep our attention high from beginning to end (episode 2). Let’s now examine how photographs and films / video go about this in […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Why are stories essential? What is storytelling? And how do photographs and films serve those best? The tension between fact and story in both media is interesting and telling. While photographic competitions regularly dismiss work that has been edited and is thought not to convey some sort of sanctified truth, many photographers today are claiming […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , News
All good things come to an end, this will be our final challenge. But it’s been a good one, and things to come should be just as interesting and even more engaging! Storytelling gets a bad rap. Ask any film editor and they’ll tell you filmmaking is manipulation. Politicians wrap up facts and intentions in […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity
It’s time for our regular challenges to end. Let me explain why. Let us end brilliantly. And let me tell you why that is in fact great news 🙂 You see, in spite of being a loner who enjoys nothing more than being alone at the top of a mountain with only clouds and the […]
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By pascaljappy | Art & Creativity , How-To
In some ways, few ways, Star Wars 9 is the best movie I have seen in the series. In some ways, many ways, it’s the worst. And the baffling aspect is that all the negatives come down to poor storytelling. This, under the direction of Disney, the absolute, undisputed masters of the art. Or so […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
If we could answer that one in a few simple sentences, producing great photographs could probably automated. But that doesn’t mean that worthwhile pointers can’t be examined in a brief post, right? Very few things can irritate me more than someone trying to reduce a complex situation to a single metric. That’s what […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
“The art of placing the various points of interest of a photograph in a way that is conducive to storytelling”. That’s my definition. I promised something more useful than ranting, a few days ago, this is my attempt. You’ll find plenty of others in other articles, and whole chapters could probably be devoted […]
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By philberphoto | How-To
Most posts on DearSusan aim to teach the reader something the photographer knows, and the reader not. Like how a piece of gear performs, or how a part of our planet looks. But not this one. This is why it has fewer pictures than usual, as I am not about to show, but to search. […]
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By pascaljappy | How-To
Dear Mommy and Daddy, today Grandpa and Grandma took me to the sea. There was lots of boats and I chatched a starfish. It was all red. Love and kissez, Tommy Don’t know about you, but this is what this photographs says to me. It’s all about the joy of a 6-year-old who’s […]
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