There is nothing more boring than looking at a series of photos that are virtually the same. And yet we all see this everyday on sites like Facebook. Even staff at Matrix Group did a little bit of this as we were beginning to post digital photos of staff events. (Did we really need multiple nearly identical photos of Nerf guns in this Facebook album from three years ago?)

The professional realm of photojournalism gives us some great tips to make our online albums more exciting. Capture the emotion of the moment; get people’s expressions. Take a variety of photos: close-ups, establishing shots, etc. Mix your best photos together to tell a story, and be sure that the captions support your narrative.

Here are a few Matrix Group Facebook album examples that ‘tell the story‘:

• The Infamous Post It Note prank
• The Peeps Show

Have you seen (or created) some good examples of amateur photojournalism?