Style of photography

On the first lesson of Record we learned about different styles of photography, such as portrait, photojournalism, landscape and artistic and creative.

Portrait photographs are usually used to identify a person, and it is usually a shot of the head to shoulders, these photos can be used in ID cards. There are even group portrait photographs where the face expression is the strongest or the main element.

Photojournalism is used to show an event, for publication and broadcasting. These can be found in newspapers as journalists use these pictures to attract, inform or even to use as evidence when writing an article.

Landscape photography combines physical origins and cultural, some to show land formations, land use and weather. These images can be used in advertisement especially in travel commercials, leaflets and posters.

Artistic and creative photographs are not very common, they are usually used to show photography skills and some for advertisement. To take these kinds of pictures the photographer has to have an eye for creativity in the smallest things. These images contain some elements of photoshop to give it the unique and creative effect.