For this assignment, I decided to take some photos while utilizing the rule of thirds, contrast, and both the foreground and background within the photos. When you look through the album above you will find some very similar looking photos, but they each tell very different stories if you focus on certain part of the image or change the contrast around.

The darker contrast images like the one shown below, tells a story about two shady warriors that leave nothing, but a pile of bodies along the path they follow. The low contrast of this image makes it really difficult  to see who these swordsmen are and gives them a mysterious and evil intent.

If you compare the lighter contrast image with the dark contrast image you get a different story. You now see the faces of the two swordsman with bodies in the background and light shining down on them. This difference in contrast makes them appear as heroes in the photo below.

Thanks to Rob Wall for these photo techniques

Reflection

Looking at the three photos that I took, I feel pretty good at this one:

With the image above, I focused more on the background rather than the foreground like the other two photos. I felt like focusing on the piles of bodies in the background helps the viewer to question the story that this image is trying tell. For example, did they do something wrong? Were they evil and did they do anything wrong? The contrast in this photo also implies that these warriors could have some sort of evil lurking about them, so the bodies in the background might be of innocent people or defenders of some sort.

Whatever you want the story to be is up to you. I just provided you with the “blueprints” to help co-imagine the story with the you or any other viewer of this image. Just like    what Jad Abumrad talked about for telling audio stories. Co-imagining isn’t limited to just audio stories.  It can be used in all forms of stories and that is what I am doing for the image of above.

Using the combination of contrast and having a great background in a great foreground can leave photos and images open for wonderful stories.