Comments on: 5 Photo Essay Tips

By: AMGphoto

AMGphoto — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:35:00 +0000

Great Post! If you enjoy photo essays, check out work from the students at Western Kentucky. They have a photojournalism program that highly respected. Cindy, this form of storytelling is commonly referred to as a “photo essay”. It is used exactly how you described it, but using photos to help illustrate. The writer is not misleading or confusing her terms. Maybe you can do some research on this first.

By: Cindy Nichols

Cindy Nichols — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:00:16 +0000

Some nice stuff here, but the writer is confusing the “essay”–which is expository writing–with “stories”–which are narratives. There is such a thing as the “narrative essay”, but that is just one somewhat minor kind of essay. This writer is definitely confusing her terms and in a fairly serious way. Readers should be wary of being misled.

Otherwise, some insightful material.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:38:25 +0000

Excellent coverage on the topic of Photo Essay. Photo Essay tells a story in photos — less talk, more photos on a specific subject. Recently I published a photo essay on my trip to Ottawa, Canada. If you are interested, you may find it in my blog posting of September 25, 2009.

By: Toni Rose

Toni Rose — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:19:25 +0000

The information you have given, really helps me to be a young photographer at the age 13 even though i’m not joining some seminars. Thank you to you because i will be joining this kind of a contest.

By: Jan Shim

Jan Shim — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:21:16 +0000

I am a photographer and a newspaper columnist who live in a small town in Brunei called Seria. Seria is over an hour’s commute away from the capital city where most of state dignitaries and celebrities would visit. Between 2008 and 2009, we’ve been fortunate to have Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla visit my town where the British Garrison is located and I had a rare and wonderful opportunity to photo document the visit.

http://shimworld.wordpress.com/2008/11/01/prince-charles-duchess-camilla-visit-british-forces-brunei/

And just less than two weeks ago, we had celebrity chef Bobby Chinn pay my hometown a visit as part of his book signing and cooking demo event.

http://shimworld.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/bobby-chinn-in-brunei/

I believe these are what may be termed as Photo Essays in that fleeting moments are captured as candidly, as creatively and as artistically as experience and opportunity allows.

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:21:11 +0000

I’ve always had trouble with teh concept of a “story” for a photo essay. I keep thinking the shots should be like watching a movie. For example: a Photo of someone getting in the car. Driving somewhere. Basically an animatic. Should a photo essay be able to stand alone without captions?

I have looked this up in wikipedia as well, and I can’t get a good enough grasp on what a photo essay really is. Help?

By: Herman Krieger

Herman Krieger — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:25:57 +0000

For a good example of photo essays, see:
“Photo Essays in Black and White”
http://www.efn.org/~hkrieger

By: digital photography tips

digital photography tips — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:37:25 +0000

Wow!! Thats an amazing idea of story telling using photographs. It will remain in the listener’s heart for a longer time.. Thanks for the tip!

By: maz

maz — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:34:41 +0000

“a bit of photographic technique, some creativity, and a lot of heart”

You’ve got it in a nutshell! Great article. This is how I choose to present my photos (unprofessional!) with a few words, original or borrowed. I find that the whole- a few carefully chosen and ordered photos, and a succinct written narrative- far exceeds the sum of the individual parts.

For example; Irish holiday photos…

http://divingforpearls.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/08/an-irish-blessi.html

By: Joseph B

Joseph B — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:21:22 +0000

Well written! I’ve been giving a thought to doing something similar, but I had no basics. Thanks for sharing these tips with the rest of us.