APPLICATIONS
As well as mass market photography, there are a number of professional applications.General commercial photography encompasses: advertising photography in which photographs are used to illustrate a service or product; fashion photography which involves the photographing of models and clothes in fashion and other magazines; glamour photography which involves the photographing of models, sometimes naked, for publication in men’s magazines; photojournalism in which photographs are used in newspapers as part of a news story; portrait and wedding photography where the photographs are sold to the people photographed; and still life photography (inanimate objects) and wildlife photography (animals) which can be published in books or magazines or sold to customers.
Fine Art Photography is essentially photographs that are considered to be fine art forms that are taken to fulfil artistic visions and are sold directly to customers. Early fine art photographers imitated painting styles, using soft focuses for a “romantic” look, known as “pictorialism”, but in more recent times, “straight” photography has become popular whereby the photograph is sharply focussed and not an imitation of something else.
Technical photography is concerned in such areas as: the recording of crime scenes and the scenes of motor, rail or air accidents; the recording of astronomical events such as eclipses; and photo microscopy, where specialised cameras can record microscopic creatures and matter.