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Photography and photographic practice 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Documentary: 

Documentary photography

 

Documentary photography is a popular form of photography, which records important and historical events from everyday life.  There are many different sub genres including sports photography, self-portraiture, street photography, live events, photojournalism, documentary landscape, social documentary, portraiture, editorial, forms of identification and many more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Migrant Mother”, Photo by Dorothea Lange,

Taken during the great depression.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eddie Adams, Vietnam, 1968

This photo portrays realism and represents conflict and war. From looking at this picture you can tell that the man who has a gun pointed at him feels hurt and disorientated. I also feel that this man could have given up on life and had suicidal thoughts just by looking at him and the state he is in. There are people running about which shows the situation these people are in and how scared they must have felt.

There are soldiers, which shows war and the fact that they are on the streets looks like they are terrorising people and giving them a really hard time. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Raw is a high-quality, award-winning magazine that focuses on documentary photography and photojournalism. The magazine offers powerful images and stories to its readers as well as providing an internationally respected platform for photographers to publish long photo essays. The magazine is bilingual (English and Finnish) and published four times a year.

Source: http://www.photoraw.org/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Newspapers such as the guardian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Documentary photography is also seen on websites like: http://www.edwardthompson.co.uk/theunseen.html

 

 

 

 

Documentary photos are observational and there are key points when taking documentary images such as:

Analyse

Exhaust perspective

Evaluate your locations

Take pictures in your mind

These are some of the key points.

Natural light is used but can be taken on a black and white film.

The kind of lenses used in documentary photography could vary from different types of lenses for e.g. maximum aperture; you would use this lens if you want a faster aperture.

 

Post production photoshop cant be used in documentary photography and is taken seriously if it is used. for e.g. 

 

Portraiture :

 

Portrait photography is the photography of someone or a group of people that portrays an expression, mood and personality. The photograph is usually the persons face but sometimes the entie body and background or context could be included. subgenres could be: fashion, editorial, beauty, glamour etc. eric ryan anderson ethics

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Hathaway, Les Miserables 

By Annie Leibovitz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audrey Kitchings 

By Andy Warhol

 

 

You can find portrait photography in a lot of places for e.g. 

ID Badges 

Magazines such as "VOGUE"

Wallets

Books 

Websites 

Google Images 

Posters e.t.c.

 

Portrait photos are not normally natural but can be natural for e.g family portraits. They are controlled but can be observational. There is usually artificial light but in some portraits there is natural light depending on location and time of day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The lenses used for portrait photos has a big impact on your portrait photos. A wide-angle, around 18 mm lens will capture quite a wider angle of view so more of the subjects surroundings will be in shot. 

A telephoto which is over a 70 mm lens,captures quite a narrower angle of view and so less of the surroundings will appear in the photo. Also the focal length will affect the DOF which means Depth of field.The depth of field is the distance between the farthest and nearest object in a picture or scene that appear sharp in an image.

The wide-angle lens will capture more depth of field compared to the telephoto lens.  This is mainly the reason telephoto lenses are favored over wide-angle lenses for portraits, as the background becomes out of focus and make the people stand out more in a picture or scene.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

post production photoshop.