There are many photography lessons I have learned over the years (and more that I have yet to learn). But I remember one with special affection; I even remember who gave it to me and when, and it is because it marked a before and after in my photographs. They began to take on a meaning that they lacked, as much as I wanted to believe that I was good at this. It is about the fact of including the human element in the image.
Show Scale
When you move a three-dimensional scene to a two-dimensional and low-dimensional format compared to the stage, the size information is lost along the way. You are in the place; you can touch, move from one side to the other, look up, down, know how far everything is, how high or wide the building in front of you is, how immense the lake is in front of you, or how high is the mountain you just climbed and the effort you have made to climb it (in fact you are still with your tongue out). You can then go ahead to run an automatic editing to make the photo more real like you want.
Convey An Emotion
A human figure will undoubtedly help you transmit an emotion, a feeling. The attitude of the person you include will infect the viewer, and what is photography if not emotion? You can like a stage, and you can even awaken emotions through its colours, how the light affects, whether it is a more deserted, icy, warm place, etc. However, with a human figure with a clear attitude, emotion is assured. What’s more, in the same stage or landscape, you can manage to transmit completely different sensations depending on the posture of the figure.
Tell A Story
There are many times that we have spoken to you about the importance of telling a story through photography. An image that tells a story will catch the viewer, will make them want to stay and read the photograph, to discover in their imagination what happens next, what is the beginning and the end of that story.
