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Visual Storytelling Lab

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59 contributions to Visual Storytelling Lab
Seeing with Intent - Assignment 6 - Image Submissions
Submission: Post an image showing that something is about to happen or has just happened. Post one image at a time, plus a short note: - What gesture or stillness caught your attention? - Why did you choose this frame over the moment before or after? Success Looks Like If someone viewing the image feels like they’re arriving late—or a little early—to something, you nailed it.
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The gesture that caught my attention of something that was about to happen was a truck door opening. I chose the moment before the foot hit the ground, after getting out of the truck, would just be too ordinary.
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@Carina Gustavsson It has an eerie, spooky feel. It does make one wonder what is going to happen next, close the curtain over the clown's face or step out from behind the curtain. Well done.
Month 3 - Prompt 3 - Photopoetry Image Submissions
Comment on this to post images you have created for the Month 3 Photopoetry prompt.
0 likes • 18d
@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Oh my. What is this?
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@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Your submissions are always so creative.
Seeing with Intent - Assignment 5 - Image Submissions
Assignment 5 Photo Challenge — The Necessary Image Create one photograph that communicates a single, clear idea or feeling using subtraction as your primary tool. Assignment Prompt: Photograph a subject you might normally shoot wide or inclusively, then deliberately remove anything that does not serve its meaning. Your goal is clarity through restraint. Be sure that your new post is posted to the last comment in this thread. There often is a button that says "Jump to last comment." You don't want your image to appear as a comment under someone else's image.
1 like • 20d
@Carina Gustavsson I can get with that. I struggled with that overgrown tree and what to do with it. Your fresh eyes saw the obvious.
1 like • 19d
@Carina Gustavsson I also prefer the final color version. Subtraction is one of those easy-to-remember tenets.
Seeing with Intent - Assignment 1 - Image Submissions
The Quiet Storefront. What Is The Image Saying? Comment on this to post images you have created for the Seeing with Intent Assignment 1: What Is Your Image Saying? The Quiet Storefront is a suggestion. Any other subject that says something to you is acceptable.
2 likes • 19d
@Carina Gustavsson In my mind the shift in tone took it from a church to a prison. Well done.
0 likes • 19d
@Mary Livingston No. No limit.
I'm Pleading. Break your Facebook habits.
By now, most of you have learned that the interaction really takes place under the Post Images Here tab. Your reactions to all the assignments and their related images are under that tab. Unfortunately, most of you are letting me do all the responding in writing on the posted images, and you have fallen into the learned FB behavior of just giving likes. Please break that habit. Give your community members some written feedback. It means so much more, and we all learn so much more.
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Mike Thompson
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Pro photographer/mentor focusing on photography with intent. I teach how to see, control, and communicate at the time of capture, so images are felt.

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