Which type of photography would I like to create?
When you think of all of the various subjects there are to capture, and all of the different ways to create the image, the field of photography really is dynamic and varied. There is something for everyone in photography, and the types of photography you can create is so exciting.
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Portrait Photography
Fine Art Photography
Fashion Photography
Portrait photography is one of the most popular genres of photography, with good reason. Good portrait photographers are able to capture the personality and emotion of people around them.
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Portraiture falls into two categories: portraits ( The Other Subject - Seek balance between subject and environment) and candid (being unobtrusive - an unguarded, fly-on-the-wall glimpse into the scene). Either can be made with or without your subject's awareness and cooperation.
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The Casual Portrait
Environmental Portraits
Group Portraits
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Of all of the types of photography, this is the one with no rules. Fine art photographers create art. They display their work in galleries and at art shows, and generally, they sell a finished, framed print product to their customers. Fine art photography can be of any subject at all, but landscape and portrait artists are probably the most common. Fine art images are about capturing emotional responses and communicating with the audience.
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Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism and commercial photography.
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This style of photography fulfill the creative vision of the artist.
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Fashion photography has been able to set benchmarks in the segment of Beauty, clothes, models, accessories, etc. using technologies and skills, Right from choosing exotic locations, storylines, background, photographer’s tricks, and techniques during fashion photography infuses life in the static photo shoot.
There are various styles to the fashion photography genre such as Editorial, catalogue, high fashion, and street. Street fashion photography is the latest addition in this category and is gaining prominence owing to its simplicity and connectivity with commoners. LookBook and Street style fashion photography are quite distinguishable, whereas Editorial and high fashion photography are quite similar in style.
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Product Photography
Architectural
Photography
Advertising or Lifestyle
Photography
Product photography is a branch of commercial photography which is about accurately but attractively representing a product. The principal application of product photography is in product catalogues and brochures, with a proportion of productimages also being used in advertising.
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Architects know the importance of lines and shapes — and so do good architectural photographers. Keep an eye out for horizontal, diagonal or vertical lines to move the eye through the image. Leading lines can point to a structure to draw attention to the subject.
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Architectural photography create images that are as bold and imaginative as the structures they are photographing.
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Street photography, also sometimes called candid photography, is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. ... Street photography does not necessitate the presence of a street or even the urban environment.
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Fashion photography has been able to set benchmarks in the segment of Beauty, clothes, models, accessories, etc. using technologies and skills, Right from choosing exotic locations, storylines, background, photographer’s tricks, and techniques during fashion photography infuses life in the static photo shoot.
There are various styles to the fashion photography genre such as Editorial, catalogue, high fashion, and street. Street fashion photography is the latest addition in this category and is gaining prominence owing to its simplicity and connectivity with commoners. LookBook and Street style fashion photography are quite distinguishable, whereas Editorial and high fashion photography are quite similar in style.
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