Styles of Photography

Miss Parker is a professional photographer who came to teach us at chestnut grove school for about 4-5 weeks, on our first lesson with her we learnt about different styles of photography including artistic/creative , fashion and photo journalism photography. 

What the different styles of photography mean ?

. Artistic/creative photography is when we can't identify the person within the photograph. 

. Fashion photography is when the whole image is highly controlled, the posture, clothes and lighting are clearly picked out and made to perfection.

. Photojournalism (paparazzi)  is a type if image you would find in a serious newspaper article, it can be a shot of a serious event e.g. children running away from soldiers covered in mud and blood.

There are also many other different styles of photography which fall under these 3 categories such as :

Portraiture , which is when you get a picture of a person from the waist up or full body , but it is an image mainly concentrated on the person within the shot.

Travel and landscape (scenic) photography is when you capture an image based on the place/landscape for things such as travel leaflets (to persuade people to go somewhere).

Wedding and special occasions photography , which uses a whole variety of different shots, is a huge business and people in the shots are just randomly posing .

Still life photography is used for product advertisements such as e.g. jewellery or food.