Acting Photos

Acting photos. This is what my sister and I call our latest hobby. We dress up, set the scene to tell a story, and take a picture. It is a lot of fun to do, but it has been a challenge to come up with original ideas that we can do with our limited props and sets. Our first picture wasn't too creative, it was simply a little girl playing with her toys, but since then Emily and I have come up with more creative things to do. Here are all the pictures we have done so far.

This is the very first acting picture Emily and I did.

 

Here Emily is dead, to add a pop of color I Photoshoped her eyes and lips.

This one is supposed to be some kind of annoyed gangster I guess.

Most of the time Emily has to be the actor so that I can take the pictures, but thanks to our brother's tripod I can be in the pictures sometimes too. Here we imagined I was being held captive.

I guess I somehow broke free and I'm freeing my sister now.

I really enjoy making these pictures, as a writer I like being able to put a story into a picture because "a picture tells a thousand words" right? Ever since I was little I get these scenes in my head that would make terrific movie clips, but I never had anything to make them real except for with words. These acting photos are a way to make visual stories without the movie making skills.