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Use of photography in the media industry By Josh Mowatt

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Use of photography in the media industry By Josh Mowatt

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Photography is an art form, which is done by using technology to create amazing photographs with incredible quality.

There are many different types of photography for capturing different style of images.

For example we have Portrait, landscape, Fashion, Photo Journalism, Macro Photography, and Advertising Photography.

What is photography?

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Portrait photography is a picture of a person or a group of people. Usually when they are front facing towards the camera looking directly at it.

For example a Passport photo is a Portrait photograph. Portrait photographs are intended to capture the truth. Another example is a photo taken of Neil Armstrong on the moon.

Some famous portrait photographers, Eve Arnold, Irving Pinn, Steve McCurry, Cecil Beaton, these are all well known or up coming famous Portrait photographers.

Portrait Photography

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Landscape photography shows different landmarks and remarkable views from all over the world. Landmark photography is normally used when there is a photo opportunity that cant be explained in words, as the view is so magnificent that it would be to hard to put into words.

This type of photography is normally used by professional photographers, as they are best at capturing a landscape photo, they will find the best view point for the photograph and where you will be able to get the best quality of photograph.

Some famous Landscape photographers Galen Rowell, Art Wolfie, David Ward and John Sexton.

I used these photos because I

thought that they really captured

the art of landscape photography.

Landscape Photography

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MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY

Macro Photography is where pictures of nature wildlife and animals, are taken in such detail and so up close that even the human eye would struggle to see it in such detail. Macro photography is usually of small insects or objects which are then made to look huge. That just proves of how up close these photos have to be.

For example this jumping spider isn't the

biggest of spiders but in this macro

photograph it is made to look A lot bigger

than it actually is. But another Amazing

thing about this photo is the sheer Detail

and quality of this photo it is amazing. I mean

even if you did get that close to look at a

jumping spider, I still don’t think that you would see as much detail from looking at it than what we can see in this photograph.

Some famous Macro photographers. John Shaw, Ronnie Gaubert, Danny Young and Jody Menalson.

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FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY Fashion photography use to be where professional photographers take pictures of models in there chosen outfits to help the company sell the clothes. But now Fashion photography is used for magazines and newspapers. And the photos either have a story or mood behind the photo now. Also fashion photography has become a lot more lenient with what the models wear for example in the 1900’s women had to be covered up they could wear swimwear but nothing revealing but now a days they can wear nothing except for there underwear. An example of magazines and newspapers that allow this are The Sun and Zoo. In Zoo magazine sometimes they don’t even wear any underwear. that just goes to show how much it has changed since Fashion photography first started in 1839.

Fashion photography 2012Compared to Fashion photography in the 1800’s

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ADVERTISEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY Advertisement photography is where company’s have there new product advertised in the best way possible. For example they hire the best photographers around to try and capture the best photo’s of there products.

Some company’s that do this are LYNX, Beats by dre, Nissan, Adidas and Apple.

These are just a few images that I have found that I think really show of advertising photography.For example the Nissan GTR the car is the main focus point of the photo, it is the lightest thing in the photo and the most eye catching. What I mean by this is as soon as you look at the picture you notice the car and nothing else, because the background is dark and not very eye catching but the background still links in with the photo.

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JOURNALISM PHOTOGRAPHY Journalism photography is where you show a story through an image.

There has been many famous journalistic photos showing a story through an image for example a photo taken by Eddie Adams

This image says a thousand words which is what

Top photo journalists aim to achieve when they

Take a photo. Some very famous journalist

Photographers Robert Frank, David Burnett and

Phillip Jones Griffins are just a few a can name and they all have managed to achieve taking a good journalism photograph.

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COMPARING THE PHOTO’S From all the photo techniques I have looked at I can now see that every single photo you take has a different technique and style to it.For example if you compare macro photography to landscape photography as soon as you look at an image you will be able to tell which photo you have taken as with landscape photography you are taking a photo from very far away to capture everything but you still want to get the best quality you can but as for macro photography it is taking a photo so close to something that your capturing detail that even the human eye wouldn't’t be able to capture. But I think that all photo styles have one thing in common and that is trying to get the best quality photo you possibly can. Know matter what the style I know it may seem obvious but that is what links all photo styles together and I find that really fascinating.