May 27, 2008
Types of Photography
Posted By denbagus
Advertising Photography - Photos made to illustrate a service or product. These images are generally done with an advertising agency, design firm or with an in-house corporate design team.
Architectural Photography - analysis of the various uses and techniques of architectural photography.
Astronomical Photography - techniques developed or modified since 1975 specially for the unusual demands of astronomical photography at the Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Baby Photography
Black and White Photography
Cityscape Photography - digital photos capturing the essence of the ‘big city’. Composition, lighting and exposure settings, photo subject ideas, and more.
Commercial photography includes advertising photography, editorial photography, photojournalism, portrait and wedding photography, fine art photography.
Concert Photography is up there among the most difficult ones. You have five thousand fans behind you, and there is a band in front of you. Nobody stands still…
Digital Photography, as opposed to film photography, uses electronic devices to record the image as binary data. This facilitates storage and editing of the images on personal computers, and also the ability to show and delete unsuccessful images immediately on the camera itself.
Documentary photography usually refers to a type of professional photojournalism, but it may also be an amateur or student pursuit. The photographer attempts to produce truthful, objective, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people.
Equine Photography includes photographs of horses and everything connected with horses.
Family Photography - posing everyone at your family reunion.
Fine art photography, sometimes simply called art photography, refers to high-quality archival photographic prints that are produced to fulfill the creative vision of an individual professional and often reproduced in limited editions.
Fine Art Nude Photography or Erotic photography dates back to the history of the art and process of taking pictures of unclothed subjects.
Food Photography - to inform and educate the viewer regarding the craft, science, business, and art of food photography.
Glamour or Fashion photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by exotic locations and story lines.
Infrared Photography - With this type of photography you can get interesting “in-camera effects”: false-color or black and white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance.
Landscape Photography - is artistic interpretations of the land, its features, beauty and its definition.
Macro photography is a type of close-up photography, where the image is as large or larger than the subject.
Nature photography refers to a particular form of photography with a stronger emphasis on the aesthetically value of the photo, taken outdoors and devoted to displaying natural elements such as landscapes, plants and wildlife.
Night photography generally refers to photographs taken outdoors between twilight and dusk.
Pet Photography
Portrait photography has been around since the invention and popularization of the camera, and is a cheaper and often more accessible method than portrait painting, which had been used by distinguished figures before the use of the camera.
Seascape Photography
Travel Photography
Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while underwater. It is usually done while scuba diving, but can be done while snorkeling or swimming.
Wedding photography is probably one of the most complicated, but at the same time challenging forms of photography that requires a great deal of responsibility, skills, and knowledge.
Wildlife photography is the act of taking photographs of wildlife, which is regarded as being one of the more challenging forms of photography as it has several different requirements.
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