Archive for the 'TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHY' Category

Close up or Macro photographer always show ease in capturing the unexpected and extraordinary sights which are not visible to normal eye.

Macro photography always shows the subject from a different angle or a totally new view. Macro photography is often dealt as creative and dramatic photography.

Observing the subject from a closer view is different subject in photography. By moving closer to the subject, you can see different dimensions in the colors and subject which are not visible from the normal eye.

The size of the subject in the normal portrait photographs is half of the actual size in the ratio of 1:2 and in the photographs clicked from a fair distance; the ratio would be 1:4.

But the size of the image clicked in the macro photography will carry a ratio of 1:1, i.e. the photos often reveal the original size. The lens in the camera plays an important role in the magnification process.

Macro photography directs you as photographer into wide spread of subjects and objects to click. Subjects used in photography are endless; they vary from a precious diamond ring to a backyard garden flowers or insets. You cannot include waterfalls, mountains, deserts and skyline in your macro photography subjects.

Sports photography often called as a subset of photojournalism. The main object in the sports photography is to capture the action of the sporting event.

An avid sports photographer should be addictive towards the game because if the photographer does not have interest in the game, he may miss the ideal shot in the match and click a useless shot.

In the world of game lovers, your pictures will go around if you click the right shot at the right moment.

Sports photography comes under the most disheartening types of photography, because the slightest mistake will ruin the photo. The main thing to remember is the best shot is always one and you should not miss that shot.

Sports photography shooting tips:

Know your subject: Before shooting good picture in sports photography, you must know the game basics such as whom you are shooting, what you are shooting, and where you should concentrate etc.

For e.g., if you are shooting sports in a kids’ school, adjust the tripod to the exact position to make the object equal to your eye level. You should be aware of the player’s position in the game to identify the correct shot.

Portrait photography is one of the common forms of photography today.

With the introduction of digital cameras, everyone is taking great pictures of their family and friends. But majority of portraits end up with a poorly focused or exposed objects or subjects.

To become a successful photographer, you must be able to capture the characteristic of the person and reveal something about the subject without adding words to it.

Many have a doubt, how does a perfect portrait photo look like. The answer to this is “the superlative portrait will expose the warm skin tones and the focal points in the picture are the eyes”.

Eyes are the area in the face where you must focus accurately, if the focal point in the picture is eyes, the picture makes a remarkable appeal on the viewers.

Choosing the aperture F/8 and shooting from a distance of 3 feet gives wonderful portrait pictures. This combination brings all the facial parts into a proper exposure.

If you are choosing a career in portrait photography, the basic abilities of a photographer is to take good pictures of people especially their face, eyes and their facial expressions. But professional photographers can portray the subject’s personality in the photo and make the subject distinctive from the crowd of portrait photographs.

Fashion photography is a wonderful mixture of artistic and commercial photography. The essence in the fashion photography is to capture the objective of fashion and make the fashion appealing to the consumers.

Before you start your career in fashion photography, you need to know the basics to understand the fashion in the clothes or product. It is referred as a subset of advertising photography, as this is meant for advertising the clothes and other fashion items.

Fashion photography is conducted by many advertising and fashion magazines as covering pages in the magazines or for displaying their products. The fashion photographer must understand the fashion to click the photographs.

If you are an aspirant to find career in fashion photography, these are the basic rules:

• For becoming a successful fashion photographer, you must have an idea about the clothes i.e. fashion and should know how to work with models.
• Imagination is very important for a fashion photographer, as each fashion photograph must vary from one another.
• Every photo should have freshness. The photographs must be taken in such a way that consumers should not distract their eyes from the product you are endorsing in the photo.

Many macro photographers have DSLR (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) cameras and macro photography supportive lenses to shoot different close-up shots. But what about apprentice photographers who own small compact point and shoot (digital cameras) cameras.

If you do not have DSLR cameras, then it’s hard to click macro photographs, but it’s not impossible. Even point and shoot cameras also yield good close-up shots but not exactly macro photographs.

The main draw back between DSLR cameras and point shoot cameras is picture clarity. The DSLR provides the exact picture that is in the ratio of 1:1 while the point and shoot cameras cannot yield the exact ratio and it can be nearer to 1:1. This is the main drawback in digital cameras.

But, because of this you cannot give up the ease of clicking macro photographs. So, here are some tips for point and shoot photographers to get great close-up photographs.

Tips for great macro pictures:

Macro mode: Every digital camera has this feature and many do not exactly know how to use this mode for clicking close up shots. Many just activate the mode and start clicking the images but do not bother to explore the different specifications which are supported in macro mode. Macro mode adjusts the camera lens with smaller aperture and focus the subject while neglecting and sometimes even overlooking the background [Different camera modes].

The landscape photography captures the essence of beautiful landscapes. Almost every apprentice photographer, who is aspirant in finding career in photography dreams of clicking beautiful landscape photographs such as sunrise, sunset or a mountain. Landscape photography comes under nature photography.

Before starting landscape photography, study about the location. Start the shoot at different times of the day and at different weather patterns. The landscape photography shows off all the shades in the nature, the dark, bright, dull, gloomy etc. Before starting landscape photography, you need to carry necessary items such as:

• wide angle and telephoto lenses
• tripod
• compass to find sunrise and sunsets
• photographic filters- polarized filters, red filters for black and white photography
• binoculars
• panoramic and SLR camera

Photographer finding career in the landscape photography need to know some basic rules to flourish as great landscape photographers.

• Lighting is very important in any photograph- light has three main qualities: intensity, direction and color [Photography lighting techniques].
• Intensity- strength of light and widespread of light in the location
• Direction-Exactly named as light distortion or light placement. If you stand directly below sun, no shadows will be formed. Knowing the direction of the sun will make photos without shadows and dark spaces.

Taking the snaps of babies is a tricky art which requires some techniques and photography tips. If you follow those tips correctly, certainly you will get better pictures of small babies; otherwise the pictures which you have taken will not be that much attractive or appreciable [Photography techniques].

As deep as you go into photography, you learn new patterns and techniques.

Photography is always interesting field, as it shows different variations.

There are different types of photography. One such type is Kirlian photography.

A technique combined with photography yields Kirlian photography.

What is Kirlian photography?

This photography refers to a form of photogram (photographic image like shadow) made with high voltage.

It is a high voltage contact photo printing. Kirlian photography was named after semyon davidovich kirlian.

Invention of Kirlian photography: The invention of Kirlian photography was done by mistake. In 1939, during the experiment on electro photography, Kirlian discovered that when an object on photographic plate is connected to a high voltage, small corona discharges are created around the object.

Hence, it yields the image of the object on the photographic plate. This image looks like a colored coronal discharge, but in actual terms these coronations are physical manifestations of the “life forces” around the object.

In real sense, the images are formed due to the natural occurrence such as electrical grounding, pressure, temperature and humidity. Changes in these phenomena can produce different kirlian photos.

As an amateur photographer, you always thrive for perfection in your photos.

There are many techniques and rules to be followed by amateur photographers to get “picture perfect” photos.

One of the famous rules for many learners is”Rule Of Thirds”.

Rule of thirds teaches the amateur photographers to click pleasing and rewarding photos.

Often the mistake done by many learners is they take photos with heads or chins cut off, giving empty space in the photo, which looks awkward.

Many amateurs’ tendency is to place the object in the middle of the frame. These photos may not appear interesting and some may even feel that these pictures are boring and usual. At this point, rule of thirds helps you to overcome this and you can have pleasing images.

Rule of thirds helps amateur photographers:

The rule of thirds technique divides the photo by drawing 2 horizontal and vertical imaginary lines making the photo into 9 parts. The imaginary lines intersect at 4 points. These points are important and act as view finders. These 4 intersections act as important points to your photographic objects. Thus, placing your objects in these intersection points will yield perfect photos.

“Color photography is a photography that uses media capable of representing colors which are produced chemically during the photographic processing phase.”

Color photography is an extension to black and white photography, which used only grey and black colors.

Black and white photos were not able to show off all the colors, which were in the original frame.

Necessity of colors in the photographs started the revolutionary color photography.

The different developments in color photography:

• The first permanent color photography was taken in 1861 by James clerk Maxwell.
• Herman Vogel in 1973 discovered sensitizing dyes which were a pursuit in full color photography.
• Experiments were made on subtractive color to improve color photography in 1977 by Louis ducous du hauron.
• The Lippmann process was introduced to color photography in 1891.
• Jolly screen process was pioneered in 1896.
• The process to improve clarity in the photographs was started in 1908 with Dufaycolor process and continued till 1919 with tri-color carbo prints. The clarity in those was top most for these prints.
• Kodachrome was a new revolution in the color photography, a 16mm motion picture film was made in 1935.