Still Life Photography

Still life photography is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. It is the application of photography to the still life artistic style.

Suzanne Cummings

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Marcel Christ

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Portrait Photography

Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study.

Annie Leibovitz

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Steve Mccurry

Yousuf Karsh

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Herb Ritts

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10 examples of Genre Photography? What is Genre in Photography?

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FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY

Food photography is a still life photography genre used to create attractive still life photographs of food. It is a specialization of commercial photography, the products of which are used in advertisements, magazines, packaging, menus or cookbooks.


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FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY


Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Elle. Fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories.
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ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHY


Architectural photography is the photographing of buildings and similar structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate representations of their subjects. Architectural photographers are usually skilled in the use of specialized techniques and cameras
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CANDID PHOTOGRAPHY


A candid photograph is a photograph captured without creating a posed appearance. This is achieved in many ways, for example: when the subject is in motion, by avoiding prior preparation of the subject, by surprising the subject, by not distracting the subject during the process of taking photos.
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DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY

Documentary photography usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life.
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LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY

Landscape photography shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or disturbances of landscapes.

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NIGHT LONG EXPOSURE PHOTOGRAPHY


Night photography (also called nighttime photography) refers to the activity of capturing images outdoors atnight, between dusk and dawn.
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CONCEPTUAL/FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY


Conceptual photography is a type of photography that illustrates an idea. There has been illustrative photographs made since the medium’s invention, for example in the earliest staged photographs, such as Hippolyte Bayard’s Self Portrait as a Drowned Man.
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PORTRAITURE PHOTOGRAPHY


Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study.
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SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY

Sports photography refers to the genre of photography that covers all types of sports. In the majority of cases, professional sports photography is a branch of photojournalism, while amateur sports photography, such as photos of children playing association football, is a branch of vernacular photography.

What is Genre in Photography?

Classifying the types of photography is a really difficult exercise. First of all, it has been difficult discerning what is a genre and what is a technique. … Even if you can identify genres, there is often lots of overlap between the different genres. And it is tough deciding what is a genre and what is a sub-genre.

Louis Daguerre Henry Fox Talbot

Born on November 18, 1787, in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre grew up in a middle-class family. By the early 1820s, Daguerre and a collaborator had invented the diorama, a form of public entertainment in which giant, translucent paintings were illuminated to simulate movement and other effects. Hundreds of people would crowd into a specially equipped theater to watch in awe as landscapes were transformed by light and color. Today the terms refers more generally to various types of scenes and displays.

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Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot was born on 11 February 1800 in Melbury, Dorset, into a well-connected family. While visiting Lake Como in Italy, his lack of success at sketching the scenery prompted him to dream up a new machine with light-sensitive paper that would make the sketches for him automatically. He called this the ‘calotype’ and patented the process in 1841. The following year was rewarded with a medal from the Royal Society for his work. Fox Talbot was also an eminent mathematician, an astronomer and archaeologist, who translated the cuneiform inscriptions from Nineveh.

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Photography/What is Photography?

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In this image : the angle of the photo is really good as it shows the details of surrounding buildings. The photo almost looks perfect as the focus of the shot was the Burj Khalifa.


What is Photography?

A showcase of Arts and Science combined. To show what most human eyes can’t see clearly. Photography is the third eye to humans, as it portrays the movement/style/color and texture of the photo.