What kind of critique\/social commentary am I trying to say through this photo — of a ‘loveless’ family, with cut-out faces?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDon’t make the photos too obvious. Leave it open to interpretation. This is called a ‘curiosity gap’. Let the viewer be curious enough to try to interpret the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. “Cherry on top”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n I call this a ‘cherry on top’. Having a small detail which transforms a normal photo into a great photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example in the below image, what are the details you find interesting or noteworthy?<\/p>\n\n\n\nFor me, it is the two cans of Red Bull in her hand. And the other hand has a cigarette. What does this say about this type of lifestyle? Good or bad? Good and bad — how so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do you think is her story? Why <\/em>does she need to drink all these Red Bulls — for what? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Practical ideas:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/orange-silhouette-mission-san-francisco-only-in-america-eric-kim-street-photography-color90-scaled.jpg?fit=4928%2C3264&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185481"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185507,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185481\/revisions\/185507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/orange-silhouette-mission-san-francisco-only-in-america-eric-kim-street-photography-color90-3000x1987.jpg?resize=3000%2C1987&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/eric-kim-eye-flash-surreal-woman-poster-background-porta-400-flash-leica--3000x1990.jpg?resize=3000%2C1990&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/surreal-street-photography-eric-kim-flash-leica-portra-400-london-phone-1.jpg?resize=2000%2C1327&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/86220017-eric-kim-move-it-here-to-pick-up-daddy-michigan-america-3000x1990.jpg?resize=3000%2C1990&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/black-mary-and-jesus-graffiti-flash-kodak-portra-400.jpg?resize=3000%2C1990&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/woman-popsicle-downtown-la-layers-eric-kim--3000x2000.jpg?resize=3000%2C2000&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/loveless-road-trip-america-photograph-ONLY-IN-AMERICA-by-ERIC-KIM00008-3000x1990.jpg?resize=3000%2C1990&ssl=1\")
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/red-bull-pink-hollywood-eric-flash-canon-ONLY-IN-AMERICA-by-ERIC-KIM00010-3000x2000.jpg?resize=3000%2C2000&ssl=1\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\n