Shooting Celebrities

Celebrity photography is challenging and the same time an exciting, glamorous field. When you deal with celebrities, firstly you have very little time to work within. There is always a time constraint even after you pin down a celebrity for a photo session. You have to therefore have good infrastructure and be ready with the necessary equipment. You have to plan the shot and adjust your camera, before asking your celebrity to pose.

photo-journalism

Photojournalism is a different ball game altogether. It is visual storytelling. It has a strong social and cultural context and is a visual form of reportage based on newsy and current affairs topics. Being in the right place at the right time and understanding the situation as it unfolds helps a photojournalist deliver reader interest material. The objective is to usually pick up contemporary topics and portray a visual story that creates an understanding on the pattern in which people live their lives or social changes that impact them in different walks of life. Photojournalism also lends credibility to the written word and can support a public interest story with visual proof. The visuals complement the written reportage on the story.

sports photography

Sports are often thought of as being difficult to photograph because of their quick moving nature. But the seasoned sports photographer has no problem with that.
This photography style is all about trying to capture the scene and the moment. From the winning touchdown pass to catching the expressions in the sidelines, sports photographers have to keep on their toes and always be ready. You never know when the play of the year will happen

wildlife photography

This photography style is dependent on animals. Wildlife photography is all about capturing animals outside of the basic household pet. Many photographers in this field attempt to capture intimate moments in animal life, while allowing the photograph to be as natural as possible.
There's often a debate about whether or not photography that takes place in a zoo falls into this grouping. Some say that zoos are not true places of wildlife, while others say that it is about the wildlife in the zoo and not the setting.

macro photography

Sometimes the smallest of things go unnoticed. But to those with a passion of macro photography, the smallest things are of the most value. Macro work involves taking a picture of something as close as possible. Common macro subjects include coins, flowers and detail work on things like carpets and clothing.

wedding and portrait photography

Both of these photography styles attempts to highlight the best of human life. For a wedding photographer, the goal is to capture all the important moments in the biggest day in another person's life. From the first kiss as a married couple, to the wedding cake itself, it's important to record the day as accurately as possible. Many wedding photographers also do portrait photography of the wedding party and the guest at the wedding.
Portrait photography is a type of photography that focuses on a person or a group of people. It attempts to capture someone in the best light possible. Many people use portrait studios to create prints for holiday cards or to send to family members. The style tries to capture a person at a single moment.

fasion photogrpahy

Fashion photography clusters a large amount of different styles together. A good way to think of fashion photography is to think of a women's magazine. All of the photos of clothing and shoes in the ads, to the clothes in the articles fall under fashion. Additionally, all of the pictures in the articles about hair and make-up are fashion photography too. Many women who go into modeling are just as much a part of the style as the clothes and fashions they model.
The style focuses on showcasing something fashionable--whether it be a new dress or a make-up style--in a certain way. Sometimes fashion photos aim to make something beautiful look not so pretty--it's all about the vision of the shoot director and photographer in this photography style

Andrew Wenzel

Andrew Wenzel has been all over the world throughout his lifetime. He worked in Antarctica as an assistant expedition leader. He has worked as an assistant cameraman and a still photographer for two different underwater documentary television series. He has many of his photographs in different places as postcards greeting cards and other publications.

Documentary Photography

Documentary photographs tell stories with images. The main difference between photojournalism and documentary photography is that documentary photography is meant to serve as a historical document of a political or social era while photojournalism documents a particular scene or instance.
A documentary photographer may shoot a series of images of the inner city homeless or chronicle the events of international combat. Any topic may be the subject of documentary photography. As with photojournalism, documentary photography seeks to show the truth without manipulating the image.

Landscape photography

A landscape is a section or portion of scenery as seen from a single viewpoint. Scenery is the subject of a landscape image. Typically, people and animals are not shown in a landscape, unless they are relatively small in the image and have been included in the composition to show scale. Some photographers argue that the sea coast, the city and man-made structures in general should not be included in a landscape, and images that do contain them are more accurately called seascapes or cityscapes. From a purist perspective, they are probably correct, since a landscape is a picture of the land and its aggregate natural features. However, if natural scenery dominates an image, it can probably be accurately termed a landscape, even though there may be a farmhouse in the distance, a city skyline on the horizon or a road or path in the foreground.

black and white photography

Photography is a diversified field of creating a spectral variety of art. It is a specialization that deals with different experimentations with colors, however it is also a fact that only shades of black and white can also do wonders in this zone of creative art. With the advent of the digital camera the scope of this wonderful business has opened up new horizons for the users and photographers who seek to explore new lands and trod the ground of innovative creation and it can be said that black & white can become more creativity with the boon of digital photography and digital camera. This discussion is primarily aimed at exploring the incipient information regarding the blessing of the digital camera in black & white photography so that the novice as well as the expert photographers can become richer in knowledge.

astrophotography

Many amateur and professional astronomers have abandoned old fashioned film cameras in favor of new digital technology, and digital cameras can produce some excellent photos of the heavens. One advantage of digital astrophotography is that the CCDs in digital cameras are generally quite sensitive, and of course there is no expensive film to buy. On the downside, digital cameras have a much reduced field of view, and photographers will need to compensate for this reduction.
In order to overcome the challenges of low light conditions in astrophotography, digital photographers rely on a number of techniques and pieces of equipment. Some of the modifications photographers can make to their digital cameras include:
Cryogenic cooling – this cooling will help to reduce thermal noise that could ruin an otherwise good photograph
Biasing
Flat field correction
A good self timer
Manual exposure control
A quality tripod

photography in scince

Photography has became an essential component of many areas of science. Ever since the U.S. Surgeon General's office compiled a six-volume record of Civil War wounds shortly after the war, it has played a major role in the study of anatomy. Photographs can provide an objective standard for defining the visual characteristics of a species of animal or a type of rock formation. It is also used in this area by photos taken through microscope.

Scientific Photography

Scientific photographery is images of a variety of subjects to illustrate or record scientific or medical data using knowledge of scientific procedures. Scientific photographers typically posses additional knowledge in areas such as engineering, medicine, biology, or chemistry.

Advertising Photography

Advertising photograhers work in the exciting advertising industry! As an advertising photographer, you get to work at an advertising agency, photo studio, or work as a freelance photographer. With it all you can see your photos in magazines, newspapers, catalogs, web sites and other places. Advertising photographers work with people, places and products. Photography in advertising can be realistic, or it can be highly creative with photo image. The advertising industry is highly competitive so photographic training and education is essential in being very successful in what you want to get put out.

photojournalism

Photojournaism is a big way photography is being used today. It is a form of journalism that creates images to tell a story. Usually refered to as just still photos but can also include video. Photojournalism is different from other types of photography by timeliness, objectivity and narritive.

Aerial Photography

Aerial Photography is the art of taking photos at an elevate position. This is a type used alot in commercial adds, movie productions and over a long period of time projects. It all started with Gaspard-Felix Tournachon, a photographer in 1858 from France. Some different types of aerial photography platforms are ballons, parachutes and blimps.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Yann Arthus-Bertrand is both a talented aerial photographer and a devoted environmentalist. The work that he does with his photography makes a huge impact on how the world goes about seeing what humanity has done to the world. Yann uses his work to help people get the connection to emotions and ideas. I think what he is doing is so helpful to people around the world to see what exactly goes on. His passion for what he does is so amazing to me.

Welcome! :)

Welcome to my blog!!! This is my first post for the semester. I am wanting to blog throughout the next weeks on how photography plays a part in different aspects from sports all the way to fashion.