Action Vs. Emotion

Photog has filed one great action shot, one great emotional shot (dejected player on the sideline after a big fuck up).

Team lost, not all because of said player, but lost none the less. Second consecutive loss, too. No panic button pushed, but close.

If it's you, do you run the action shot or the emotional shot?

Me, I think the emotional shot tells more of a story. And I think that's what photos should do. (Although, I once worked for a guy who would not, under any circumstance, run a photo without the ball, puck, tool of trade in the photo. I'm dead serious)

Anyway, which of the above two mentioned do you run? Why?

 

why can't you package them and run both?

 

I have two and a half pages today. Banner/strip ad on front. Half page ad on page 3. There's no way, not with NFL kicking off.

 

Can you use one and save the other for a file photo? If so, I'd use the emotional one now, and save the action photo for either a feature or preview.

 

We're doing a slideshow on website. I'm leaning emotion in print. Action on web.

 

you're a good leaner, my friend. right call.
(just be ready to talk with the kid's dad/mom/neighbor tomorrow when you find that he cannot return to school and will have to move across state lines because of the extreme amount of embarrasment you've caused him and his family.)

 

huh?

 

been here, done this.

 

What sport, what level.
A freshman in high school, maybe not. College, fuck yeah

 

College.

I found a way to run both in print. I actually love the layout I came up with.

And, both shots are in the slide show on the website.

 

I'd go with the emotion shot as the bigger photo, but I'd use the action shot either as a secondary front photo or as an inside photo to go with the jump.

 

Emotion. That's what it's all about.