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Landscape photography is one of the most popular niches of photography. Whatever you find in front of you and your camera is a landscape – be it a stormy sea, a frosty forest or a sky-piercing tower, doused in sunlight.

Food photographers work to create and capture these  beautiful  and enticing images of food for magazines, cookbooks, restaurant promotional materials, and Web sites. They work with food stylists to make the food look as appetizing and aesthetically  beautiful  as possible. Food photography  is an artistic technique employed to exaggerate or enhance tothe appearance of food, often for advertising purposes. It is akin to fashion photography in that techniques such as lighting, backgrounds, focus, depth of view, filters are adjusted in ways to glamorize or idealize its often mundane subject. Other tricks of the trade include painting or coloring the photographed objects in order to make them look more appetizing; paintin uncooked chicken or fowl a deep, glistening brown, for instance, is a standard technique. In popular culture, the exaggerated perfection of the photographs, as well as the mouth-watering images of the food itself, is oc...

Fashion Photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by the presence of exotic locations or accessories. With its huge audience, high pay-checks and glamorous international lifestyle, fashion photography may seem like one of the world’s most sought-after professions. Photo by Bhargab Sarma Fashion photography has been in existence since the earliest days of photography. In 1856,  Adolphe Braun published a book containing 288 photographs of  Virginia Oldoini, Countess di Castiglione , a  Tuscan noblewoman at the court of  Napoleon III . The photos depict her in her official court garb, making her the first  fashion  model. In the first decade of the 20th century, advances in  half...

     Architecture surrounds us every day, and is a very popular photography subject. Follow this guide to help you take some stunning architectural shot.                                                       Photo By  Stephen Murphy When photographing old architecture, a straightforward and simple composition usually works best, showing the natural beauty and elegance of the building. It usually helps to include some of the surrounding scenery to give context to the architecture and make it feel less cramped. pj Photo by Saurav Goswami   When photographing modern architecture you can get away with using a much more modern, abstract style. Experiment with wide angle lenses to produce extreme perspective, or photograph the building from unusual angles. Also, because modern buildings are often squeezed in very clo...

What is Arial Photography ? It is the   technique of photographing the Earth’s surface or features of its atmosphere  with cameras mounted on aircraft, rockets, or Earth-orbiting satellites and drones.       Aerial photography should not be confused with   air-to-air photography , where one or more aircraft are used as   chase planes   that "chase" and photograph other aircraft in flight. The history 👇          Aerial photography was first practiced by the French photographer and  balloonist   Gaspard-Félix Tournachon , known as  "Nadar" , in 1858 over  Paris ,  France .   However  the photographs he produced no longer exist and therefore the earliest surviving aerial photograph is titled 'Boston, as the Eagle and the Wild Goose See It.' Taken by  James Wallace Black  and  Samuel Archer King  on October 13, 1860, it depicts  Boston  from a heigh...

2nd Topic What is Documentary Photography ? As photographers (and before you argue that you aren’t a “professional” or you aren’t a photographer, I’m here to tell you that you are! If you take photographs you are a photographer, and this applies to you!) it is almost our duty to record the lives and times of those closest to us, family and friends. I’m not just talking about birthday parties and weddings, which are both important, but how about everyday life? Documentary photography   usually refers to a popular form of photography used to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history and historical events as well as everyday life. It is typically covered in   professional   photojournalism , or real life reportage, but it may also be an   amateur , artistic, or academic pursuit. Documentary Photography and Photojournalism! Documentary photography generally relates to longer term projects with a more complex story line, while photojou...