Tell your story…
Color as a way to create narrative
I often hear from writing coaches, photography and art professors, that I should always try to convey a story in whatever I produce. Sure.. I get it, we are humans, after all stories are the way we try to make sense of what is around us.
But the problem is that often we are too explicit in what we want to convey and end up not longer being a story just a set of facts and opinions.
I personally believe that freedom of interpretation are better way to create a long lasting experience and as a artist we should be ok with that.
Insinuation?
We are so use to consume super-high quality content that our brain instantly discard as useless anything that doesn’t meet the standard bar of the moment. Recently, my sister shared this week within the family Whatsapp group a picture of me in a birthday, probably from early 80s. I’m so use to iPhone/IG/Youtube quality content that my first impression was first where the hell was this photo all this years, but later I became more nostalgic, not because of what was going on in picture but for the emotions the mute colors, the reddish backgrounds , the warmth and the imperfections.
So this week I put myself on a quest to try to override this behavior — as much as I can- and started experimenting in recreating some of this nostalgic feeling on the pictures I take on a regular basis with minimum effort. I discovered this movement “straight out of the camera” #sooc which try to use modern digital camera capabilities to recreate old films.
The results are here and at least I can think of 10 different stories about whats going on in the scene without me writing a post about it. /s
recipe thanks to @fujixweekly
