This document provides an overview of professional photography fundamentals. It defines photography as "drawing with light" and describes types of photography including portrait, landscape, fashion, photojournalism and advertising. It also discusses software used like Photoshop, equipment used such as DSLR cameras and tripods, and career options in fields like press photography, photojournalism and more. The goal is to present beginners with an introduction to professional photography.

1. Professional
Photography
Fundamentals
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A Photography Guide for Beginners

2. Introduction
The presentation renders the viewers with the fundamentals of
professional photography including:
 Meaning
 Types- an Overview
 Software used
 Equipments used
 Career Options

3. Meaning
 The word photography is derived from two Greek words,
Photography literally means “Drawing with Light”.
Photos means
“Light”
Graphos means
“Drawing”

4. “ Professional photography can be understood as an
art & science of capturing images using technology
to create amazing pictures with incredible quality. ”
“There are always two people in every picture the
photographer & the viewer.”

5. Types of Photography
On the basis of different style of images, typically Photography can be
classified into:
 Portrait Photography
 Landscape Photography
 Fashion Photography
 Photo Journalism
 Advertising Photography
“Photography is not about the
things photographed. It’s
about how that things looks
photographed.”
- Garry Winogrand

6. Portrait Photography
 Portrait photography refers to a picture of a person or a group of
people, usually when they are front facing towards the camera
looking directly at it. A photo taken by Neil Armstrong on the moon
or a passport photo falls under portrait photography .
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7. Example of Portrait Photography :

8. Landscape Photography
 Landscape Photography consists of simply just capturing miles of
land from a standing point ,by looking down from a raised view at
the landscape. It is mostly used during outdoors, looking down at a
wide stretch of land from a higher point in order to get the
targeted piece of land in the frame.
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9. Example of Landscape Photography :

10. Fashion Photography
 Fashion Photography is used to promote different types of clothing
in an attempt to sell it to the public meaning the pictures need to
be attractive for the consumer (usually a model is used for the
attractiveness for men and women). It is used mostly in studios
and photo booths where they can get the best quality picture in
the best color as the background would be a clear plain color to
help the product stand out for the customer.
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11. Example of Fashion Photography :

12. Photo Journalism
 Photo Journalism is the art of capturing images to capture a news
story. There has been many famous journalistic photos showing a
story through an image. For example a photo taken by Eddie
Adams. Some of world famous Journalist Photographers are Robert
Frank, David Burnett and Phillip Jones Griffins.
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13. Example of Photo Journalism :

14. Advertising Photography
 Advertisement photography involves taking pictures for
commercial use i.e. where company’s have there new products to
be launched or advertised in the a productive manner. It is also
used in corporate brochures and leaflets, menus in cafes and
restaurants, and similar commercial uses where
photographs enhances a text.
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15. Example of Advertising Photography :

16. Other Types
 Product Photography
 Food Photography
 Sports Photography
 Press photography
 Interior Photography
 Scientific Photography
 Aerial Photography
“Beauty can be seen in
all things, seeing and
composing the beauty
is what separates the
snapshot from the
photograph.”
- Matt Hardy

17. Examples:

18. Examples:

19. Software Used in Photography
 Almost all the professional photographers use one or more photo
editing software to enhance the quality of their clicked images.
Some of the commonly used software are:
 Adobe Photoshop
 Adobe Photoshop Elements
 Photoshop Lightroom
 Corel Paint Shop Pro
 Apple Aperture
 DXO Optics pro
 Pixelmator

20. Equipments Used in Photography
 Following are the majority of equipments used by professional
photographers to capture incredible images:
 DSLR Camera (lens 18-55mm)
 Mac and Windows Workstations
 Professional Scanners and Video Cameras
 Professional Lightening Setup
 Chroma Shoot
 Tripod
 Card Reader
 Light Box
 Backdrop
 Advance Editing facilities

21. A Glimpse at Equipments:

22. Career Options in Photography
 Photography as a profession is not only confined to capturing
memories, special moments & milestones, but has emerged as a
full-fledged profession , offering a number of job opportunities in
diverse fields. Some of the career options are:
 Press Photographers
 Photo Journalists
 Fashion Photography
 Portrait Photographers
 Industrial Photographers
 Wildlife Photographers
 Forensic Photographers
“There is only you & your
camera. The limitations in
your photography are in
yourself, for what we see
is what we are.”
- Ernst Haas

23. Compiled by Pooja Jindal
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