- Still Life
- Sports
- Fine Art
- Cosplay
I have chosen these 4 because i think they are either interesting or i don't know much information about them and i would like to know more and go into depth and detail.
Still Life
There are many different contexts of still life photography, it can be used for advertisements, science and
An advertising still life photographer is Nori Inoguchi, who took photos for Tom Ford's bottle of fragrance surrounded by fur. This is the final photograph Tom Ford used to advertise his product:
I like this photograph because it makes the bottle stand out to the fur and makes it more aesthetically pleasing and appealing to the eye. I like the way that the bottle and the fur are similar colours but the bottle is a slight lighter colour to make it look more inferior and makes sure its the first thing you see when you look at it.
Still Life photography has been popular since the early 19th century, they adopted this from painters such as Vincent Van Gogh who were famous for painting still life.
This is an example of the early still life photography by Adolphe Braun in 1867, the photo is called 'A Hunting Scene'
Sports
Sports photography is a genre which covers every sport from horse riding to snow boarding and skate boarding.
The sports photographers normally use a DSLR camera, when taking images a high shutter speed - 8 fps or sometimes faster. This controls the amount of light in which reaches the sensor inside of the camera. This means that moving objects will look still
There are many different famous photographers in Sports, a few are Bob Martin, Dave Black and Tom Jenkins.
Since 1998 Bob Martin has covered every single Olympic game, he has won the British sport photographer of the year award 3 times. Bob said that being a sports photographer takes time as you can't always get the best shot. Bob Martian uses a range of tele-photo and super tele-photo lenses to get a photo regardless of distance. These are a few pictures of the equipment he uses:
Another photographer is Dave Black, he has been a free lance photographer for over 30 years. He has photographed for publications such as Time, Sports Illustrated and news-week. Dave Black uses a technique called Creative lighting, this means that he uses various lighting to create a captivating look to change the perspective.
This is an example of one of Dave Blacks work:
Fine Art
Fine art photography was discovered during the early decades of the 20th century.
An example of a fine art photographer is Alfredo Stieglitz. This is an example of one of his photographs:
'The Pool Deal' 1910
Cosplay really means Costumed role-play. Basically cosplay is to dress as a character from a Japanese/Korean animated TV show or video game. Most cosplay is done or found at anime conventions.
Cosplay photography mainly focuses on the person and the attire they wear rather than the scenery or the things in the background. Cosplay photography is a mixture of fashion photography and portrait photography where both the clothing and the person in the photograph are the main focus.
A cosplay photographer is Shiro Ang.
Shiro Ang is a photographer specializing in portrait, fashion and music photography. In Shiro's spare time he tends to do coverage of Anime and Cosplay related events.
Here is a few examples of Shio's work found from his website shiroang.deviantart.com.
These are all inspired by characters such as Jonny Depp in Pirates of the Carribean.
These are some types of cameras that Shiro Ang likes to use:
- Nikon D800
- Nikon F3HP
