Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography and portraiture - What types of photography are there?

What types of photography are there?

1, photo photography

Photo photography has always been an important form of portrait photography with its beautiful picture language and beautiful design connotation.

2. Commercial photography

Commercial photography, as its name implies, refers to photography activities for commercial purposes. In a narrow sense, it is commercial photography, and in a broad sense, it is a type of photography that publishes goods or writes stories. This type is an extremely important one in current photography activities.

3. Still Life Photography

Still life photography is relative to figure photography and landscape photography, and it is a kind of photography that people can move or combine freely.

4. Artistic photography

With the development of the times, people continue to add artistic elements to photography and begin to produce artistic photography. The difference between it and documentary photography lies in the artistic level, but there is no absolute boundary.

Step 5 record photography

Documentary photography refers to photo photography that takes recording as the first purpose and reflects the true image of objective things. Photography was born for recording. Its powerful vitality after its birth lies precisely in its recording function. This is incomparable or irreplaceable by other technologies or arts.

6. Portrait photography

Can be divided into three categories: photography indoor portrait, indoor specific environment portrait, outdoor portrait. What are the requirements for portrait photography? Both form and spirit? .

7. Holography

Holography refers to a new photography technology, which records all the information of the amplitude and phase of the reflected wave of the object being photographed.

8. Ink photography

Like traditional ink painting, ink photography works appearing on the market now can be divided into landscapes, flowers and birds, and artistic conception according to the subject matter, which corresponds to landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting in Chinese painting; According to the technique and artistic conception, it can be divided into abstract and concrete, which corresponds to the freehand brushwork and meticulous painting of Chinese painting.