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Documentary photography aims to truthfully capture real life situations as they occur. It has evolved as camera technology has advanced, allowing for less staged photos. A good example is provided showing poverty in another country in an objective, unstaged manner. Portrait photography focuses on conveying emotion and personality through facial expressions. Landscape photography seeks to depict natural beauty, while nature photography captures plants and animals. Advertising photography aims to make products look appealing.
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- 2. DOCUMENTARY. Documentary photography is normally referred to an image that was taken to show something. Normally accompanying a news story, or article, it will give an insight into how serious, strange, funny or real something is. For example, photo-journalists will go to Syria or Iraq to get pictures of people and what it’s like to live over there – it is supposed to be truthful and objective. Documentary photography has changed over the years as new technology has been produced. Before these small, swift, compact cameras were around, the cameras were large, heavy and bulky; this made for very staged shots as the people would be looking at the camera – not like the candid one a photo-journalist wants. In the 1880s, there was an outrage from the public as the new Kodak camera was brought out and they were being photographed without giving consent. I think this image is a good example of documentary photography as it shows an image of poverty and how people live in what seems to be another country. It is not staged and it’s objective. It looks like it was used in a news story or just to be a powerful image.
- 3. PORTRAIT. Portrait photographs are normally pictures of a single person, occasionally they will be a group of people. They are used to express the person’s emotion, personality, expression and their overall likeliness. Almost all portrait photos are the person’s face as that’s what delivers all these things – although the person’s body and the background could be used to express something (although unlikely). I like this image (right) to show portrait photography as it’s multiple people and it shows half of each person’s face very cleverly which could mean different things to different people. The image that I took (left) is a good image for portrait as it’s very genuine and the look on the man’s face is very vacant which shows a lot of emotion. It’s not staged which makes it better. The composition in this photo isn’t very good in my opinion, however – there is too much free home and his head/face only takes up about twenty percent of the photo.
- 4. NATURE. Nature photography is a photograph of anything outside, anything natural. It could be anything from animals to flowers. Most of the modern photos are very close up shots of things as new technology is made the detail and zoom length is increased so wildlife photographers can get nicer shots. They are often used in nature magazines or geography magazines like The National Geographic has a lot of nature photography. You wouldn’t see that much nature photography in newspaper, local or regional, as there is not many stories that require the use of any kind of nature in the story, unless it would be for a special occasion. The image I took on the left is good in my opinion as it’s a colourful Bunch of flowers which is wildlife. Also, I took the photo at an angle th The sun would shine on the flowers to give for additional effect. The image I used for an example is a good image to use as an example as it’s a colourful, birds -eye view of a bunch of flowers. it’s natural with perhaps some editing on the outside.
- 5. LANDSCAPE. Landscape photography is a way of showing the space in the world, it focuses heavily on nature although some photographers, like Ansel Adams, focus heavily on disturbances or man made structures. Pictures like this are often used in nature magazines, their objective is to just look good. There isn’t any meaning really – just to show pure, natural beauty. Technology has changed landscape photography quite a lot, arguably in a good way. Before technology, photos were taken by bulky, heavy cameras and printed out and finally admired – no editing of any kind. Now, when a photo is taken, it’s taken straight to a computer and edited to make it look even more beautiful. Some say this is ‘controversial’ as it’s meant to be nature, but some admire the idea to make it look nicer to look at. I like this photo as it’s very attractive due to The use of the sunset in the background. I also admire the angle it was taken at to giv The effect that it does. The image I took underneath looks very nice As I used the lighting to make the tree’s look Very dark and the clouds very light.
- 6. ADVERTISING. Advertisement photography is used to show off a product or show what it can do. It’s often main focus is to show the product and to make it look good. Advertising Photography is the most competitive form of photography, due to the fact that photographers can earn a lot more money in this aspect of photographer. The photographers have a very hard job as they have to make a masterpiece from something as simple as a chocolate bar.