Commercial Photography

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Commercial photography includes all kinds of photography that are performed for earning money. Such as advertisement photography, food photography, fashion and glamour photography. In commercial photography photographers priority is to satisfy client’s need and want. So the subject or the product must be the underlined. For example in fashion photography, don’t let the model get ahead of clothing, the stress must be on the clothing. What are the sub genres of commercial photography?

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Advertisement Photography; photographs made to promote and sell a service or product.

Fashion and Glamour Photography; These kinds of photography requires to work with models, fashion photography focuses on clothing while glamour photography focuses on model. To learn more about Fashion Photography; read “Fashion Photography Tips”. To learn more about Glamour Photography; read “Glamour Photography Part 1” , “Glamour Photography Part 2″

Still Life Photography; Photographs of simple everyday objects.

Food Photography; It can be categorized under Still Life photography. Pictures of food or packaging of food to be used in advertisement campaigns.

Photojournalism; Documentation of a news story.

Portrait and Wedding Photography; Photographs made to directly sell to the end users.

Fine Art Photography; Fine art photographs made to satisfy a vision and reproduced to sell directly to customers.

Landscape Photography; Landscape pictures that made to sell nature magazines or directly to customers

Wildlife Photography; Demonstrates the lives of animals. This photographs can be sold to nature and wild life magazines.

In sum every kind of photography can be sold, and as long as the purpose of producing the photograph is selling, it can be defined as commercial photography. On the other hand all these genres also can be made to satisfy the personal needs and desires of photographer and not to sell. In this case they are not commercial.