Fashion Photography Essay

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Fashion photography, what you need to know. There is a contradiction in fashion photography: In theory, its purpose the same as that of a catalogue: to depict the clothes and help to sell them. In practice however, fashion photography has been used as a vehicle for self-expression by some of the world's greatest photographers. That said though the fashion industry wants a certain type of photo that may make u feel like they are pushing your artistic side out of the way to make room for what “They” want not what “You” want out of the photos. Fashion is an evolving subject. Ever changing one of the biggest attributes of a good fashion photographer is staying on the edge of the fashions industry knowing what is new what’s old and all the latest designers and designs will make a big difference in people’s perception of you as a fashion photographer. Like any professional field knowing what you’re talking about is the “key” element. But that alone will not make u a good fashion photographer. If you want to be good you need to be original and become a well-known name and in an industry like fashion photography that is very hard indeed. Like all artistic things painting, sculpturing, designing, u need to have a love and talent and passion for it. If u don’t love fashion photography by all means give up now! There is a huge amount of competition in the field. and u won’t make any progress in it if you are not able to give it your all a big part of being original is your own talent and ideas showing trough onto your work but in the same breath do not let it take over that’s where the contradiction at the start comes into play. You have to find that perfect balance of not starving your artistic side but not having a one track mind and always wanting it your way! You have to understand that you are dealing with companies big international companies that

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