A day around Choa Praya River and the market place, Bangkok

There is often confusion the differences between 'Photo Story and 'Photo Essay'. Both concepts require a series of photographs that have emotions, feelings and tell a story about the chosen subject. Most importantly the photographs should draw the viewer into the content of the  photography. Both Photo Story or Photo Essay can be of a place, person or an event, some text can be added if necessary, however the photograph should tell a story by itself and not the other way around.

A Photo Story can have a series of photographs ranging from a place, person, or an event, each photograph is strong on its own to tell a story about the place, an event or people.

Whereas a photo essay, a series of images depend on each other to emphasis the story, and are usually of the same one chosen subject.

For this article I chose to collate a series of images from my trip to Bangkok. These images were taken to show 'A day around Choa Praya River and the marketplace. 

 

Bhupinder Ghatahora ABIPP, ARPS, ASWPP
Ghatahora Photography
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Lady on the boat

I took the above photograph in Bangkok outside the 'Bangkok River Cruise Tours', where you get on boat to see Bangkok's temples on the Chao Praya River. I saw this lady sat on the boat I took the camera and took the photograph. I did not want her to look at the camera; her sitting there made me wonder what is she thinking, where is looking (as there was nothing behind me just the river).

It is always good to have an interaction with your subject, however this image would not have been the same if I asked her to look at the camera. The misty of her expression would have been lost. The final image works for me, it is just the way I had pictured in my mind.

Bhupinder Ghatahora
Ghatahora Photography

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