DESCRIBING AND COMPARING PHOTOS

Steps: follow these steps in order to organise your description.
1. Introduction: mention what both photos are about (there is always one common theme in all the pairs of photos you´ll be describing)
2. Compare: explain similarities and differences between the photos. 
3. Speculate about the photos (you may also relate them to your own personal experience)
4. Answer the examiner´s question about the photos. 

Videos. Watch these videos to get some ideas:

Slideshare Presentation: describing and comparing photos

Rubric. 

Here are some useful phrases to use when comparing photos. Make sure you use a variety of different expressions.

The top picture shows...
The bottom picture shows...

In one photo there are...
In the other photo there are...

In the picture above it looks as if...
In the one below it looks like...

Both pictures show...
In both pictures there are...
They're both quite similar because they both show...

There are... in both photographs.

This picture shows... but that one...

In one respect the pictures are quite similar because...

One difference between the pictures is that...

The biggest difference between them is that this one... but the other one...

This one looks more ... than that.

Doing ... isn't so ... as...

In my opinion...
I'd say that...
I think...
It seems to me...
My view is that...

Another thing that's different is...
Something else that's different is...

They're alike in another way, too.