Rachel Vazzana

Mrs. Cox
August 28, 2015
Photography Unit
1. Portrait: photography of a person or group of people that displays the
expression, personality, and mood of the subject. Like other types of
portraiture, the focus of the photograph is usually the person's face, although
the entire body and the background or context may be included.
Examples:

Twiggy
Photo by: Bert Stern, an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer.
This photo fits the criteria of Portrait Photography because it focuses mainly on the persons
face. This captures the expression of being surpised by her open mouth and wide eyes; this is a
needeed aspect of Portrain Photography because the person should display the expression,
personality, mood of the subject. Stern was an American fashion and celebrity portrait
photographer so he had a lot of experience with expression, personality, and mood in his
photography.

Uma Thurman

Photo by David LaChapelle

This photo matches the criteria of Portrait Photography because the photo
strictly focuses on the persons face. This photo shows a careless expression
with the use of the imperfect lipstick on her face and the excessive makeup on
her face. LaChapelle is known to use color to show striking features in his
photography, the color used in this photo is her makeup that shows beauty in
the photograph.
2. Landscape Photography: shows spaces within the world, sometimes vast
and unending, but other times microscopic. Landscape photographs typically
capture the presence of nature but can also focus on man-made features or
disturbances of landscapes.
Examples:

Autumn River, River Frome, autumn 2012

Photo by Phillip J Brittan
This photo fits the Landscape Photography criteria because it shows a
microscopic part of the world. In this photo, Brittan captures the colors of fall
with a leave in the river; this clearly captures that presence of nature.

Bay Bridge, San Francisco, by a National

Geographic Photographer
This photo meets the criteria for Landscape Photography because it
presents a vast part of the world. In this photo, the photographer captures a
man-made feature which is the bridge and nature which is the bay.
Additionally the water reflects the bridge which can be a common pattern in
landscaping photos with water in it.
3. Vernacular Photography: creation of photographs, usually by amateur or
unknown photographers both professional and amateur, who take everyday
life and common things as subjects.
Examples:

Coffee
These photos display the criteria of vernacular photography because
drinking coffee is an everyday routine. This photo also isnt very professional
and vernacular photography doesnt have to be.
4. Action Photography: a photograph that captures something in motion
Examples:

Aosta Valley, photo by Jakob Sanne

This photo fits the criteria of Action Photography because the snowboarder
was obvious in motion when the photograph was taken. In this photo, it
shows motion with the snow flying up as the snowboarder causes it.

Caress the Wave by Mathilde Guillemot,

Teahupoo, Tahiti
This photo meets the Action Photography because the surfer was in motion
when the photo was taken at the time. As you can see, in the picture the
waves are crashing down as the picture is being taken.

5. Architectural Photography: the photographing of buildings and similar

structures that are both aesthetically pleasing and accurate representations
of their subjects. Architectural photographers, are usually skilled in the use of
specialized techniques and equipment.
Example:

DoWn ToWn WaVeS, unknown photographer

This photo fits the Architectural Photography criteria because this is a photograph
of a building down town. In this photo, the structure has a wavey pattern that can
be pleasing to the viewer; this is usually seen in architectural photography.

Shell, unknown photographer

This photograph has the criteria that fits the Architechular Photography category
because this photo is a structure/building. The structure has a very similar look to a
shell, which is the representation the photographer is trying to acomplish.
6. Event Photography: taking pictures of employees and guests in corporate events
such as conferences, birthday parties, Christmas parties, receptions and sales
events. Corporate portrait photography means taking formal pictures of employees
for websites, magazines and other various publications.
Examples:

Forecastle Festival

This photo shows the criteria of event photography because the event it
was taken for was Forecastle which is a large music festival. This picture
promotes the event with the appealing setting and the large number of
people there which makes it look very popular.

WestFest 2012
This photo shows the criteria of event photography because the event it
was taken for was a music festival called WestFest. It displays whats going on
very well from the crowd point of view, and the photographer makes it as if
you were actually there by using that point of view.
7. Macro Photography: photography producing photographs of small items
larger than life size.
Examples:

Damselfly, photo by William Houston

This photo presents the criteria for macro photography very well because
this is a photo of a water droplet, which is very small. The photo makes it
seem very large by zooming in, you can also see an image in the droplet that
you probably notice if you were just looking at it in real life.

Kiwi by Yasin Cobanoglu

This photo displays the criteria for macro photography very well because its
zoomed into a small object, which is a kiwi. This photo mainly focuses on the
pattern of the kiwi by having it take up the whole photo which makes the
object look larger than it really is.