Narrative: Image Bank

"Donna," as she refers to herself on her internet blog, is a photographer with her own business (wild creative photography). She teaches at a Primary school part-time and has 2 daughters. She is from Southern Australia. Learn more here!

I was drawn to this photo because it's so light and happy. The child seems so free, and I think that emotion really gets to the viewer. I like this sifferent take on narrative photography also- instead of a real "story," it's more of a series of events that conveys a feeling more than anything.

Kristina Drobny is a 29 year old photographer currently living in Burlington, Vermont, USA. She has an MFA in photography. She takes narrative photographs, trying to tell a story with a single shot. She enjoys the control she gets from sealing her models' fate.

I was drawn to this picture because it's weird. It's funny. But it also tells a very curious story st the same time, perhaps making it funny in the first place. What is he covered with? SHaving cream? Is he shaving his whole body? Is it soap? Potato salad? I don't know, and the picture definitely makes me want to find out.

Narrative: Theory Notes (My Story)

Narrative (storyboard) photography is a series of photos that tells a story. Here is my story. Sally leaned over to Lisa. She had found her newest victim. "Oh, my God! WHAT is she wearing? A belt on top of a shirt? What a weirdo! She thinks she's like some fashionable diva or whatever? Uhmm, no. Sorry honey." Lisa looked where she had Sally pointed. Frida was walking by. Of everyone Lisa hated, she talked about Frida the most. "Ugh!! Look at her! Looking at us like she's all that? Really? Whatever. Keep walking honey. Just keep walking." Sally was taking careful note of the art of bullying. And Lisa was the master.

But Frida had had enough. She was tired of being bullied every day of every month just because Lisa was bored. And today was the day it was going to end. She was scared, and she knew it showed. But she had to be strong or this would never end. So she said it. Lisa was just jealous. But that was when Sally piped up. "Jealous?!" she said. "Jealous of what, toothpick?" She had been learning, and had finally mastered the art of the unnecessary diss. Unfortunately, this was the wrong day to have surpassed the master.

Frida lunged at Sally with fury. She just couldn't take it anymore. And she wouldn't. She pulled Sally out of the chair and attacked her like an animal, pulling her hair, scratching her face, and screaming at the top of her lungs. Lisa found the whole thing entertaining, because there was 1 thing Sally didn't know yet: always have someone by you to take the blame for what you've done.

Narrative: Printing Composition: 3 + 4

For the next print, I tried the same setting I had used for the last print.

Aperture: 2.8

Time: 40

Filter: 4This looked good, so I tried a full print at these settings. Aperture: 2.8 Time: 40 Filter: 4

I then tried the last print's test strips at the same settings, since they looked about the same on the contact sheet. Aperture: 2.8 Time: 40 Filter: 4

This also looked fine, so I did a full print straight away, making this my fastest photography project ever!

Aperture: 2.8 Time: 40 Filter: 4

Narrative: Printing Composition: 1 + 2

This is my contact sheet. The negatives turned out fairly well, excpet for the black bars on the sides of a lot of the images and amoebas on some of them. Aperture: 4 Time: 42 Filter: 0 Then I tried my first print at the same settings as the contact sheet but doubled the time, since it was a full print. Aperture: 4 Time: 84 Filter: 0 That was too dark and gray, so I tried a test strip at aperture 8 and several times. Aperture: 8 Time: 84+10... Filter: 0 This looked good, so I did a full print at 94 seconds. Aperture: 8 Time: 94 Filter: 0

For the next print, I tried the first test strip using the previous print's settings: Aperture: 8 Time: 94 Filter: 0

This was too dark, so I tried a test strip at a lower time. Aperture: 8 Time: 80 + 2... Filter: 0 This was too gray, so I opened my aperture and added a high filter, since the story "happens" in the background, which is darker. Aperture: 2.8 Time: 40 Filter: 4 This looked better, so I tried a full print at those settings. Aperture: 2.8 Time: 40 Filter: 4

Narrative: Diary Entry

This project was a lot of fun. It felt really good to be done before the deadline, because that has never happened to me before. I enjoyed working with the smaller sizes, because it was cuter and I like hoe the smaller sizes look. It was really frustrating that my negatives were developed badly, however, because there was a big black line on the side of almost all of my prints. Also, Becca's forehead in the first print and the ceiling in the last print had weird amoebas on them. I really liked using the flash, though, because my negatives turned out better and I felt powerful walking around with sucha huge flash on my camera. Although it did take a couple tries to get the flash working- I had to re-shoot and still ended up with a bit of problems on my negatives.