Photo story means presenting a story or essay primarily through images. Many photo stories have written elements that help narrate the story. And, individual images may even have captions that give more in-depth information or context to that photo. It is important to ensure that all of the photographs link to the story and remove any anomalies that don’t fit into the story your trying to convey.

Establishing shot: Establishing shots are typically wide or extreme wide shots of buildings or landscapes. These shots might include signage, landmarks, or other obvious signals of place and time. This type of photo gives the audience viewing the story context. An establishing shot is the first shot in a scene that provides an overview of the setting. It is often shot from above as an aerial shot, offering a view from a distance that helps the audience orient themselves to and identify the time and/or location in which the scene is occurring.

Person at work: This next type of shot involves an image being captured of someone in their own work environment. Typically in these images, the person seen in the photograph is completing a task/ activity which relates to their job. The background of the image holds high importance in the viewer being able to understand the context of the image. The objects/ things seen around them can provide as clues in order to figure out what profession the person in the image has.

Relationship shot: A relationship shot captures a connection between people whether that be platonic or romantic. Eg family, friends, couples.

Detail shot: Detail shots often tell the story of the situation by focusing on a relatively small portion of it. Details shots also can be images that, through compositional techniques, draw attention to a specific detail of a subject that might otherwise have gone unnoticed.

Environmental portrait: An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject’s usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject’s life and surroundings.

These are some examples of picture stories. Each one has unique details added to it in order to make it different from one another eg different backgrounds, colours, text fonts, layouts etc.