A single photo has the power to tell a story that can create all kinds of emotions in the viewer but sometimes it can take a few photos to tell the whole story.
I was out shooting this past week as my hometown switched on the Christmas lights, the town had lots of different stalls from food to the games you might find at a local fair, it was on one of these stalls I came across a young man trying to hook a prize.
I’m sure like me you remember this frustrating game, you have to hook a fake moving fish onto a hook and when you do finally get the bugger on the hook you hope there’s a prize printed on the bottom, I don’t know about you but I hated this damn game, anyway back to our young man, the effort he was putting into winning was wonderful and I knew that one photo wouldn’t tell the whole story, I did miss the final photo when he won a prize (out of focus). I will be sharing the photos below but this got me thinking about how I work as a street photographer and that most of the time I get one photo and then move on or I might work a scene and take multiple photos which I'll go through picking my favourite and disregard the rest, I mean the single photo works on social platforms but they are restricted. With my website I can show the whole story, I think of it like shooting with different focal lengths, wide focal length as opposed to a tight focal length, the first will show more of the surroundings and this, in turn, will show more of the story, unlike tighter focal length which focuses on the subject, this is where multiple photos can help with what’s going on.
I’ll post more thoughts on this in future blogs, in the meantime here are the photos from that evening.
