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Types of Photography Shots

Architecture
Architecture

Classical architecture is the architecture of the academy, the architecture of arbitration, NOT the architecture of the classical period. It’s worth doing some research into what architecture is, and how to understand it.

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Astrophotography
Astrophotography

Astrophotography is the name given to the process of taking pictures of anything not on the Earth, but out in space. Most of us probably think of images from the Hubble Space Telescope when the word is mentioned, but making good astrophotos doesn't require billions of dollars or a ride in the Space Shuttle.

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Candid Portrait
Candid Portrait

Candid photography is all about understanding and capture unplanned moments of someone’s emotions, be it cheerfulness or tears. The skill you’ll want to develop as a photographer is the ability to take notice and observe. Photographers will look far and wide, over the crowds and through the landscape looking for that one in a million shot.

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Conceptual Portrait
Conceptual Portrait

Conceptual photography means the photographer is trying to write a story in your head with a single image. A lot of the time the message is conveyed in a very abstract way using random objects and props.

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Environmental Portrait
Environmental Portrait

The shots of the weaver and the very pregnant mother are wonderful, but for me the old man in his store gives us everything we need to understand about the environmental portrait. The hopeless clutter of the store contrasts perfectly with the serenity in the face of the (perfectly lighted) subject.

Fundamental Styles of Portrait Photography
Fundamental Styles of Portrait Photography

Photo by Sasha Gitin. Portrait of Ura, 1999. Conclusion: Styles Mentioned In this article are the basic principals of portrait photography. Each style or a combination of any can be applied to numerous categories. For example a wedding photographer can choose to use tradition style vs. candid, or glamor vs. lifestyle.

General Journalism Street Still Life
General Journalism Street Still Life

In collaboration with the radical journalist Adolphe Smith, he began publishing a monthly magazine, Street Life in London, from 1876 to 1877. The project documented in photographs and text, the lives of the street people of London and established social documentary photography as a form of photojournalism.

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Glamor Portrait
Glamor Portrait

Senior Writer Nino Batista is an editorial glamour and exotic automotive photographer in the United States. His work is regularly published in lifestyle and men's publications all over the world, and he is regarded as one of the premier glamour photography and retouching educators in the U.S.

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Lifestyle Portrait
Lifestyle Portrait

“True Lifestyle Photography, however, is more than taking candid shots. It is about capturing images that reveal a story.” I agree. Lifestyle photography is indeed the new thing. What matters is the content that tells the story.

Macro Nature Floral Insect General
Macro Nature Floral Insect General

Vyacheslav Mishchenko is fond of nature and photography which is responsible for making him a creative and professional macro photographer. He started capturing his first macro photographs when he was just 10 years old. After spending most of his time on painting, he decided to return to photography to specialize in capturing macro photographs.

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Medium Long Shot
Medium Long Shot

Medium shots are also used when the subject in the shot is delivering information, such as news presenters. It is also used in interviews. It is the most common shot in movies, and it usually follows the first establishing shots of a new scene or location.

Medium Shot (MS)
Medium Shot (MS)

Medium shots are also used when the subject in the shot is delivering information, such as news presenters. It is also used in interviews. It is the most common shot in movies, and it usually follows the first establishing shots of a new scene or location.

Nature Wildlife Bird Scapes Land Sea
Nature Wildlife Bird Scapes Land Sea

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Nude
Nude

9 Nude Photography Tips Image by Daniel James Let me start by saying that I never thought I’d do any nude photography – not because I am against it as a form of Art – but partly because it never seriously crossed my mind as something I’d do and partly because I never thought I’d come across anyone who would pose for me.

Over-The-Shoulder (OTS) Shot
Over-The-Shoulder (OTS) Shot

In film or video, an over the shoulder shot (also over shoulder, ab tu, OTS, or third-person shot) is a shot of someone or something taken from the perspective or camera angle from the shoulder of another person.

Portrait Personal Wedding Family
Portrait Personal Wedding Family

No doubt there are many wedding moments you won't want to miss. The best way to ensure your photographer captures the right moments for all posterity is to provide a suggested shot list. Of course, the style and number of these images will all depend on the photographer you've chosen and how long ...

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Shallow Focus
Shallow Focus

Shallow focus is a photographic and cinematographic technique incorporating a small depth of field. In shallow focus one plane of the image is in focus while the rest is out of focus. Shallow focus is typically used to emphasize one part of the image over another.

Single Shot
Single Shot

Good shot! 4 TCP PICTURE photograph [countable] a photograph SYN picture shot of a close-up shot of a demonstrator being beaten by a policeman I managed to get some good shots of the carnival. We hired a photographer to take some publicity shots.

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Sports
Sports

Sports photography, unlike any other type, occasionally requires the biggest and most expensive equipment available. This allows you to shot from anywhere around the stadium, including the end zones in football, creating the perfect head on shot.

Surreal Portrait
Surreal Portrait

Surreal Portrait Photography by Tiffany M Portraiture is one of the most common types of photography and because of that it can tend to become rather redundant.

The Different Types of Camera Shots
The Different Types of Camera Shots

Shot Types There is a convention in the video, film and television industries which assigns names and guidelines to common types of shots, framing and picture composition. The list below briefly describes the most common shot types (click the images for more details).

Three Shot
Three Shot

Good shot! 4 TCP PICTURE photograph [countable] a photograph SYN picture shot of a close-up shot of a demonstrator being beaten by a policeman I managed to get some good shots of the carnival. We hired a photographer to take some publicity shots.

Traditional Portrait
Traditional Portrait

Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study.

Two Shot
Two Shot

A two shot is a type of shot in which the frame encompasses a view of two people (the subjects). The subjects do not have to be next to each other, and there are many common two-shots which have one subject in the foreground and the other subject in the background. It is very useful if the film is about two people.

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