Art Photography

Art Photography-


Application-
When I think of the word Art i imagine paintings of different things from Abstract images to Landscape paintings. Art can be a way to capture the imagination in a painting/photographer and display the artists ideas or vision.


Conceptual Photography is a way of turning an idea or concept into a photo. Two photographers who do this are called Stephen Gill & Esteban Pastorino Diaz.




Photo by Stephen Gill

 Stephen Gill takes photos of various places but in an odd twist there appears to be random pieces of rubbish/junk on the lens, when i first look at the photo i notice all the pieces on the picture.


He drops the parts onto the camera making it entirely random where they will be in the picture, insects crawl into and across the film and are used in some of his other photos.

Photos by Esteban Pastorino Diaz

These four photos are by Esteban Diaz. He took these photos at night using long exposures giving it a lit up and eerie look from the surrounding darkness.


Most of the buildings in his photos are run down and in ruins and can appear to be deserted giving it a dark and gloomy feeling. 




Context-
When it comes to finding Art Photography i believe you mainly find it in photo/art galleries and books, they display the most interesting choice of photos which show a lot of feeling/creativity, photos that make the viewer what may be going on in the photo and what it means to the artist or themselves. Most of the photos we saw in the museums and galleries were in a modern appearance on the wall and not in old wooden frames.

When Photos are displayed in galleries like the third gallery we saw the backgrounds and environment made the photos stand out more along side different scenery's. In the third gallery there was a room devoted to trash can photos, the background around the photos (the display) was all grey and metal like im assuming to resemble a bin like texture this makes the photos more real and gave it a different aspect in which i looked at them.


You can also find Art Photography in many other places not just galleries such as the internet artists like to display their work online and get feedback from various other people, to convey their ideas and creativeness.


Techniques-
I think when it comes to Art Photography techniques the photographer needs to think about the use of various different things such as the lighting, scenery, angles and objects so that they can portray their idea across to the audience and make them think about the photographers idea. Using different shutter speeds, exposures and adding flashes can alter the image it can be about experimenting with your idea and the camera.

Photo by Alejandro Chaskielberg

Fashion Photography

Fashion Photography-

Application-

Fashion Photography uses lots of colours and textures in most photos they include lots of textures in the clothing such as various materials like feathers, fur and animals. They use a large ammount of props to portray different styles and attitudes, they use lots of different colours to suit the image. Its a way to sell an idea of fashion a type of style so that everyone will follow in a way advertising various different styles/attitudes and clothes.

When i look at Fashion Photography i notice that most of the models are women compared to men, i believe women look to fashion more than men do so i personally think it appeals to women more.

There are lots and lots of different artists who take pictures for different magazines and companys, probably the most known fashion magazine is 'Vogue'. A well known photographer who 'set the template for Fashion Photography' is called Cecil Beaton who took photos of models with different styles of clothing he said 'he wanted to capture his fantasy'.

Photo by Cecil Beaton

I think Fashion Photography can be very pretentious and can lead young females on thinking these skinny models look like that on a daily basis and makes them want to look like that too but most of it is due to editing from software like photoshop but on the other side i think it generates a lot of publicity and a large ammount of the worlds population enjoy watching, reading and viewing Fashion Photography.

Context-

Fashion photography is shown mostly in magazines like 'Vogue' and '10 Men' but there are many others out there that show various different syles of Fashion and Photograph.

Vogue is a great example of how Fashion Photography is used in the media such as magazines, they portray their ideas of fashion and lead it the way they want without looking back.

Cover of Vogue in Spring 2008

Techniques-

There are lots of techniques and time that goes into Fashion Photography, it really depends on what the photographer is trying to create/recreate lots of photographers use Studios to recreate what they are looking for and its an easy enviroment to control.

Photo Manipulation can be a large part of Fashion Photography, they can change and completely alter a persons appearance which can itself be a very bad thing as it can lead the younger population believe they look like that all the time, the dove advert video is a great advert for displaying the change that can be made in photos.

 Set Designs can play a large part in a Fashion Photographers job world, it can take a lot of time to set up and create. A lot of time and work can go into Fashion Photographer so that the photographer can create/recreate whatever they are trying to. Different cameras are always involved and can make a huge impact on different photos.