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.

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.

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 that

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.

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 give

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.

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.