Photography fundamentals

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Professional Photography Fundamentals

• A Photography Guide for Beginners

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Introduction

• The presentation renders the viewers with the
  fundamentals of
• professional photography including
• Meaning
• Types- an Overview
• Software used
• Equipments used
• Career Options

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Meaning

• The word photography is derived from two Greek
  words,
• Photography literally means Drawing with Light.

Photos means Light
Graphos means Drawing
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What is Professional Photography?

• Professional photography can be understood as
  an art science of capturing images using
  technology to create amazing pictures with
  incredible quality.

There are always two people in every picture
the photographer the viewer.
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Types of Photography

• On the basis of different style of images,
  typically Photography can be
• classified into
• Portrait Photography
• Landscape Photography
• Fashion Photography
• Photo Journalism
• Advertising Photography

Photography is not about the things
photographed. Its about how that things looks
photographed. - Garry
Winogrand
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Portrait Photography

• Portrait photography refers to a picture of a
  person or a group of
• people, usually when they are front facing
  towards the camera
• looking directly at it. A photo taken by
  Neil Armstrong on the moon
• or a passport photo falls under portrait
  photography .

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Example of Portrait Photography
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Landscape Photography

• Landscape Photography consists of simply just
  capturing miles of
• land from a standing point ,by looking down
  from a raised view at
• the landscape. It is mostly used during
  outdoors, looking down at a
• wide stretch of land from a higher point in
  order to get the
• targeted piece of land in the frame.

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Example of Landscape Photography
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Fashion Photography

• Fashion Photography is used to promote different
  types of clothing
• in an attempt to sell it to the public
  meaning the pictures need to
• be attractive for the consumer (usually a
  model is used for the
• attractiveness for men and women). It is
  used mostly in studios
• and photo booths where they can get the best
  quality picture in
• the best color as the background would be a
  clear plain color to
• help the product stand out for the customer.
  

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Example of Fashion Photography
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Photo Journalism

• Photo Journalism is the art of capturing images
  to capture a news
• story. There has been many famous
  journalistic photos showing a
• story through an image. For example a photo
  taken by Eddie
• Adams. Some of world famous Journalist
  Photographers are Robert
• Frank, David Burnett and Phillip Jones
  Griffins.

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Example of Photo Journalism
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Advertising Photography

• Advertisement photography involves taking
  pictures for commercial use i.e. where companys
  have there new products to be launched or
  advertised in the a productive manner. It is also
  used in corporate brochures and leaflets, menus
  in cafes and restaurants, and similar commercial
  uses where
• photographs enhances a text.

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Example of Advertising Photography
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Other Types

• Product Photography
• Food Photography
• Sports Photography
• Press photography
• Interior Photography
• Scientific Photography
• Aerial Photography

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing
and composing the beauty is what separates
the snapshot from the photograph. - Matt
Hardy
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Examples
Interior Photography
Aerial Photography
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Examples
Food Photography
Sports Photography
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Software Used in Photography

• Almost all the professional photographers use
  one or more photo
• editing software to enhance the quality of
  their clicked images.
• Some of the commonly used software are
• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Photoshop Lightroom
• Corel Paint Shop Pro
• Apple Aperture
• DXO Optics pro
• Pixelmator

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Equipments Used in Photography

• Following are the majority of equipments used by
  professional
• photographers to capture incredible images
• DSLR Camera (lens 18-55mm)
• Mac and Windows Workstations
• Professional Scanners and Video Cameras
• Professional Lightening Setup
• Chroma Shoot
• Tripod
• Card Reader
• Light Box
• Backdrop
• Advance Editing facilities

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A Glimpse at Equipments
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Career Options in Photography

• Photography as a profession is not only confined
  to capturing
• memories, special moments milestones, but
  has emerged as a
• full-fledged profession , offering a number
  of job opportunities in
• diverse fields. Some of the career options
  are
• Press Photographers
• Photo Journalists
• Fashion Photography
• Portrait Photographers
• Industrial Photographers
• Wildlife Photographers
• Forensic Photographers

There is only you your camera. The limitations
in your photography are in yourself, for what we
see is what we are. - Ernst Haas
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