Photography Contexts Magazines Magazine photography is all about

Photography Contexts

Magazines Magazine photography is all about getting a collection of high quality, professional images to promote a product or person. Some of the photography applications that are used in magazines are promotional, fashion, portraiture and studio. The quality of the images are very high and this is due to them being printed on gloss paper to make the magazine pages and they have a long deadline of a month for each issue where they have time to get the best images possible. The example I have picked shows this as the images are of high quality and have been carefully edited and executed.

Newspapers Newspaper photography is mainly about getting across a story and the quality of the image isn’t the most important part, its what's in it. The applications that are used in newspaper photography are photojournalism and documentary. The images aren’t always of the best quality due to the tight deadlines that newspapers have to meet which is getting a new issue out every day. The example I have picked shows newspaper photography successfully as it is a hard hitting image that isn’t the best quality but helps get the story and headline across to the audience.

Billboard photography is about using a simple image to help promote a brand or product along with the name a tiny bit of information. They use simple images as billboards are places on places like motorways so people only get a quick glance so the message needs to be easily read. The applications that billboard photography uses are mainly fashion and advertising photography. The image I have used as my example shows this successfully as it is an image advertising the clothing from the fashion brand forever 21.

Web pages use photography to grasp the attention of the viewer and get the intrigued into what is on the page and stay and read into all that is featured. There are various different types of web pages so there are various different types of applications that are used however popular ones are photojournalism, promotional and portraiture. The example I have picked shows this as they have used images that of celebrities that are guaranteed to grasp the audience attention.

CD Roms are a way that photographer can share large files with one another. They aren’t really used anymore due to the use of high speed broadband that is available now however photographers might use it due to the fact that it is a way to share files that will be locked and can not be edited which is used from now again as there is a lot of issues with celebrities editing their images and this way once the images have been put onto a CD Rom they can not be edited at all, the image put on it is the image that can be used and nothing else.

Galleries usually use photographs that are of a high professional quality but aren’t promoting anything in particular and are shown in a large public place. The applications that are used in the images in galleries are fine art, portraiture, documentary and architectural. The example below shows gallery photography successfully as it uses a mixture of high quality fine art images and portraiture images.