{"id":437,"date":"2012-09-03T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/?p=437"},"modified":"2012-09-03T01:48:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:48:16","slug":"story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/story\/","title":{"rendered":"Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

The Call: Waiting for the Boat to Come In \u2014 Cheryl<\/h6>\n

I will tell you something about stories,
\n[he said]
\nThey aren’t just entertainment.
\nDon’t be fooled.
\nThey are all we have, you see,
\nall we have to fight off
\nillness and death.<\/p>\n

You don’t have anything
\nif you don’t have the stories.<\/p>\n

\u2014Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

\"empty<\/a><\/p>\n

The Response: All Done! — Jessica<\/h6>\n

I know I\u2019ve touched on the concept of storytelling in photography before. I guess it\u2019s something I keep coming back to because I can see the vitality and energy that it adds to photographs and I want to have that same feel in my own photos. It’s a difficult concept to execute successfully. Or maybe I\u2019m just really bad at it. ; )<\/p>\n

I read a piece the other day that attempted to show some storytelling photos<\/a>. One of the commenters took the author to task for showing poor examples. He claimed that since the author had to explain so much of the story behind the photo than it wasn\u2019t really an effective storytelling photo. <\/p>\n

So, my example: the empty jar of baby food is prominent and you can see the baby in the back. I\u2019m afraid my f-stop was too wide so Danny is little more than pretty baby bokeh. It leaves the photo with a \u201cso what\u201d feel. On the other hand, if the baby had been more in focus and you could see how much food was all over him, than it would have been a funny story: more food on baby than in baby.<\/p>\n

So mark this one as another lesson learned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Call: Waiting for the Boat to Come In \u2014 Cheryl I will tell you something about stories, [he said] They aren’t just entertainment. Don’t be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. You don’t have anything if you don’t have the stories. \u2014Leslie Marmon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[170,167,168,169],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-campfire","tag-ceremony","tag-leslie-marmon-silko","tag-native-american-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2D42d-story","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/callandresponse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}