Photographing an event and choosing photos that work together as a set takes a lot of preparation and planning. The variety of your images helps to make the selection much more interesting and work better on the whole. Also the lay out and size of the photos helps to impact on how they come across to the viewer.
I took an event to photograph and tried to capture a series of photos that showed the event in an interesting format as though it was part of a magazine spread with captions etc and try to get across the feel of the evening where Joe and Holly are Trick or Treating. I didn’t spend as much time planning as I would have liked, and kids are quite unpredictable!
Joe and Holly get ready in there Halloween Costumes
What a scary bunch!
Trick or treat!
Mmmm yummy sweeties, thank you!
Booooooo!!!
It can be quite difficult to get the photos in the right order and how make them look more attractive and draw a reader in, but if you get the perfect mixture you end up with a set of photos that really pop out of the page! If they are good enough then a lot of the time you wont even need the captions to say what is happening in the picture.
I am going to be shooting some weddings for friends next summer, so I understand how much planning will be involved as I need to know what kind of photos they would like, where the location is, how many people I will be dealing with. Finding out about the location and going to view it first is a must if you can, so you can find different view points, see where the lighting falls at different times of day and help to improve on any ideas you might have for the shoot. It would also be beneficial to take some practice shots so that you can get a feel for the area.
When events happen in a sequence it is quite easy to use the photos in this way and produce a story of them, where it is more challenging to take one photo that tells a story. its all about the appearance of the photos afterwards that impacts on their story the most as even the most interesting images can be let down by there lay out. Also the amount of variety within the images such as horizontal and vertical, different techniques, lighting, angles etc all help to make the set of shots come together with interest and diversity.
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