As
we have discussed before there are many avenues open
to a professional photographer. Some actually
graduate from the world of business into corporate
photography. Corporate photography has many facets;
it is used for publicity, in the form of
advertisements; for public relations, for historical
purposes, and for in-house brochures. Some corporate
photographers can work for the same company for many
years. They cover special events in the companies'
history, as well as being as in some cases an
important aspect of industrial history.
The
history of the steamboat, the transition from the
Agrarian to the Industrial revolution has all been
captured on film. Not only industrial history but
history has been captured on film. War photographers
usually by press photographers' have captured
history.
In
the 1940's Ansel Adam's was probably the best-known
American photographer. He captured images of the
enforced internment of American citizen's of
Japanese descent at the Manzanar War Relocation
Center in California. These prints record history in
another way as the Photographic Division of the
Library of Congress show digital scans of his
negatives as well as his prints; this allows a
student to study his dark room techniques.
The
art of action photography is a specialised art that
presents unique challenges, requiring both technical
skills in capturing a moving image, as well as
knowledge of the activity you are photographing. A
sense of timing is vital as well as having the
ability to pre-focus. Some types of photography has
peak moments, such as the hour before dusk, action
photography has peak milliseconds! Your sense of
timing has to be well developed to know when this is
going to be, because you have to shoot a millisecond
before that to give the camera time to actually
shoot.
This
is where knowledge of the activity is very helpful
to allow you to anticipate the peak second. However,
this is a very specialised aspect of the photography
business, your techniques can be improved. Sport
photography is easier than moving wildlife, or
breaking news stories, as it is more predictable in
its outcome.
Common sense is fairly important with your
positioning, you need an interesting backdrop, as
well as a place that allows you to make best use of
ambient light, be it also to keep yourself in a
position of safety. The Pulitzer Prize for
photography is no use to anyone when they are dead.
Often these skills can be refined at amateur
sporting events, where you do not need a press pass.
Another specialist type of photography is underwater
photography, partly because you also need to be a
qualified diver and partly because the equipment is
specialised. It is possible to take shots
underwater, with a normal camera, but amphibious
cameras, get better results, unfortunately they are
expensive, with a lot of things to learn and the
possibility of very expensive repairs.
As
with action photography this is best left to the
specialist and it is not a feasible option, unless
you work in this media for the majority of your
time. The sea can be a dangerous medium to work in,
and it presents special challenges such as night,
and wreck photography, as well as drift photography,
all of which challenge both your diving skills as
well as your technical skills.
Scientific photographers take images of a variety of
subjects to illustrate or record scientific or
medical data using knowledge of scientific
procedures. They typically possess additional
knowledge in areas such as engineering, medicine,
biology, or chemistry. Often the photography of this
type of record is an adjunct to a scientific career.
Assignment photography is the delivery of material
for a specific assignment, often with limited
appeal. It includes portrait photography, as well as
wedding photography. Portrait photographers often
have their own studios, as their clients come to
them to have a formal portrait photographed. SLR
digital cameras are often preferred to do this type
of work, as there are more opportunities to "view
real timework", you do not have to wait for the
negatives to be printed to see if you have created a
shadow on the face with a hat.
Also
they can be retouched, pixel-by-pixel, which means
the small time imperfections can be glossed over.
The adage the camera does not lie has never been
completely true, but in today's world is even less
so. A portrait photographer has the opportunity to
go out on assignment and covers events such as
weddings, and christenings. Photo Journalism is
another branch of photography that covers the
breaking of various events; it can be general, on a
local paper, covering local events such as school
plays etc. International freelancers often cover
specific areas such as war photography. Press
photographers are often characterized under the
banner of "journalism", as they collect, edit and
present news material, yet despite this they use
images to tell a news story.
It
is distinguished from documentary photography,
street photography and the photographing of
celebrities because they have a timeline in that
they tell a story in a chronological order. A
narrative to further complete the story nearly
always accompanies the work. Implicit to a degree in
this type of work is a level of objectivity rather
than creativity, as the images are recording real
events in real time. For these reasons it differs
from a wedding photographer, even though in theory
he covers an event in real time and for publication.
A further aspect of photography is the "celebrity"
and "Society" photographer. The two are
distinguishable, though the person being
photographed can fall in both categories. The
society photographer may be also a photojournalist
himself.
In
Europe at least the Society photographer, is nearly
always of the same class, partly on the ground that
they have the "breeding" to cover such events, which
may be Wimbledon, or the Melbourne Cup, or even a
charity-raising gala. It is implicit that the
Photographer has permission to take the photograph.
That's quite different to the inherent distaste
often applied to the methods used by the celebrity
photographer, whilst at the same time the public
retain an insatiable desire to be able to see the
photographs. Celebrity photographers are often these
days called paparazzi, after a famous Italian
photographer known for his dogged determination to
trail after celebrities, and publish photographs
taken in an unguarded moment.
By:
Roy Barker
About the Author
Publisher & Author: Roy Barker. Roy is the author of
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