How do I get an emotional response from my photographs? I want

>>3119796
Not trying to sound like a douche but take pictures of emotional things. It's easier said than done. You have to get out of your element in a way. Its hard to do just wandering around your home town. when I went to new Orleans to build houses for people who got fucked from Katrina I was able to capture what you are talking about. People would come to see what we were making for them or would come to see the finished home. It was so easy to do there. But I haven't really had that same chance. On vacation in other countries I sometimes get it with the locals. But you have to go out of your way is what I'm saying.

Timing and including people's faces, bright and big.

Oh, and don't use kids.

>>3119796
A scene has to have raw feeling for you to capture. You can't just create an emotional response taking pics of random shit. And since photography is considered a documentary medium (meaning some would consider it unethical to stage a scene) all you can do is seek it out in emotional places or hope you'll be lucky enough to stumble onto it.
For now you should focus on improving your technical skills (making pretty pictures) so that when the opportunity arises you don't squander it by taking terrible shots.

>>3119796

get a person to do something they enjoy/hate. take a photo of it. then photoshop the hell out of it, turning a pretty mediocre shot into something that keeps your eye engaged.

sort of like the shot you posted anon.

>>3119796
Jesus Christ, this "Jake Olsen Style yours for 19.99$ limited offer" is so plastic and gimmicky it hurts muh eyes...

>>3119796
>punctum
Seriously, based on your pic related and mission statement I'd say you're setting the bar too low.
You need to generate layers of meaning, relying on the viewers ability to connect cultural references to visual cues and trigger subconscious and, ideally, ambiguous emotional responses. You should be (cynically or not) manipulative in your compositions, and be able to reliably invoke at least the base emotions. Fear, lust, nostalgia, calm, anger etc.
Think about all this in the context of repeatable method. Easy, really.

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