Wednesday, April 13, 2016

What is Fine Art Photography and How to Do it?

Advanced photography has changed the way individuals take photographs, and what number of are taking them. Anybody with a camera can be a picture taker nowadays, and a considerable lot of those need to be proficient photographic artists or specialists, however they can be the both. Everywhere throughout the web there is an ascent of the individuals who are calling themselves Fine Art Photographers; so perhaps the time has come to investigate what they are and how they are diverse to the standard picture takers.

A photographer online saying that you could go wacky on an image, add a weird curving blur, then call it fine art. That doesn't make an image artistic, that just makes it silly. There doesn't seem to be a definitive explanation or definition for what Fine Art Photography is, but there do appear to be things that help define what it is.

Artists Vision

Before work can become fine art the artist has to have a vision of what they think their work will look like.

An Idea

Fine art is about an idea, a message, or an emotion. The artist has something that they want to have conveyed in their work.
That idea or message may be something small, a single word such as abandon, or it may be a whole statement, like exploring the way the moon affects the tides. It is a start. It is like a hypothesis.

Technique

The work you create to demonstrate your vision and ideas has to have a consistency to it. When all the work is together it has to have similarities. Often artists will use the same medium and techniques for each idea.

Body of Work

In the end there has to be a body of work that shows your ideas, subjects and techniques. If you were to get your images into a gallery there would need to be a uniformity to them all.

Artist Statement

Finally you would most likely need an artist statement. A short explanation of what the work is about, why you created it and how.
When you go to a gallery you might look at the work and wonder what it is about, so you look for the artist statement. It will help you figure out what the artists intentions were, the reasons why, and how they created that work.


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