FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

This genre visualizes photography as an art and creates abstract yet striking and appealing images. Fine art photography is the only genre of photography that has a broadband of genre example of which are; fine art portrait photography, fine art landscape photography etc. There are few steps you need to take as a photographer in creating photographs that are considered fine art and a number of which we would be looking at in this article.

• BE CREATIVE: Being creative is the best way to develop your fine art photography such that you can create an image that connects with how you are feeling at that moment in time. Creativity is a unique and interesting way of embracing and documenting your subject and showing this as an art form through your photos.
• USE OF COLOURS AND MOOD: Paintings seen in exhibitions and galleries are forms of fine art photography which demonstrate different moods, themes, and stories. Colour is used to evoke emotions and is a way of putting life into your fine art images. Colours like blue and orange give a warm and cool notion to your image which can add a positive feeling and a calming relaxing feeling to your image.

DON’T PHOTOGRAPH IN BLACK AND WHITE ONLY: I know as a photography when you hear of fine art photography the first thing that comes to mind is black and white. Fine art photography should be creative with colour and also with colour grading this helps add more life and feeling to the images.

Images by Yetunde Babaeko