The Art of Female Form Photography
I just recently viewed a funny montage of why women are beautiful, and men are not so much. The montage first showed 6 beautiful nude women lying down on their front sides with towels around their heads at a spa.
The next shot was a picture from the back side of 3 obese men sitting shoulder to shoulder in a diner eating their packages with syrup. It was a funny and exaggerated representation of men and woman’s physiques but none the less the general consensus is that women are more vivacious then men.
The Essence of Photography – How Snapshots Become Art
Are all the photographs you take a work of art? I submit that they are not. However, there most certainly are photographs that are works of art. I have looked at the famous photographs of Ansel Adams and others from the golden era of photography that had the ability to capture, in an instant, an image that lasts forever. I once saw an exhibit of Adams’ iconic image of “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” with several renditions of the photo as developed by Adams over the years. Each image was slightly different, but each showed the haunting beauty of a cemetery in a New Mexican village with the moon illuminating the scene. Sometimes he dodged or burned the clouds and the light on the crosses one way and sometimes in another way, but he always delivered beauty to the print.
While you or I may never take a picture that is as good as those of Ansel Adams, we can all strive to capture the light in the camera and develop it in a way that touches the heart of the viewer. Our goal should be to take a photograph that elicits a visceral feeling in the viewer. So, how do we turn a mere snapshot into a work of art?
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Fine Art Photography Explained
The term fine art photography is probably a new term but it is so often heard now that it is a category by itself under the art of photography. Some people may, of course, be confused by the term ‘fine art’ being combined with ‘photography’. Since photography is an art form by itself, it is actually quite natural to combine it and come out with a fine art category.
Fine art, as we all know, is a form of art that showcases the artist’s skills in his or her masterpieces. Now, in this type of photography, instead of using brush and paint and canvas, the artist uses modern equipment, the camera, to express his creativity and piece of art. Thus, the artist cum photographer creates a masterpiece using light, camera, lens and digital photo editing.