Thursday, 2 October 2014

DT 2 - Week 1 Photographic genres

Photographic genres can be divided into four basic categories:

  • Creative genres
  • Editorial genres
  • Retail genres
  • Personal genres

After I read this page www.shutha.org/photo-genres, and discuss with Seps about the question below.

1. Which genres require more photo retouching? Why do you think this is?
     Creative genres
     Because the image from creative genres have more wholesale creation or alteration and recreation.

2.Can you think of any photographers we looked at last term who fit into an editorial genre? Which editorial genre do they fit into? What approach do they take to their style of photography? (B&W/color/formal/raw/etc)
    Lewis Hines is photographer fit into life - Documentary, who photograph were instrumental in changing the child labor laws in the United States at 1900, he shot with large format and B&W image to catch the moment with the lidding lines, rule of third and narrow depth of field.


3. Can you think of any photographers we looked at last term who fit into a creative genre? Which creative genre do they fit into? What approach do they take to their style of photography? (B&W/color/formal/raw/etc)
        Tsunehisa Kimura is photographer fit into fine art — still life, who created works using photomontage. His montages often contain themes of surreal urban destruction and chaos, or juxtaposition of man-made monuments and natural phenomena. He was making large format and color image to add all the subject together about his fantasy.

4. Can you think of a photographer who fits into the Creative Fine Art genre? Could this photographer fit into any of the Editorial genres as well?
      David LaChapelle
      Also he can fit into life — social documentary.

5. Where will your photography this term fit on these graphs?
     I will fit into creative product — commercial, because that what I am doing now, and I really like do some nature image.


1 comment:

  1. Can you comment some more on how your work this term fits onto creative product? What are you going to photograph? What lighting will you use? What sort of nature images will you take?

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