Fine art photography is probably a new term, but it is so often heard now that it is a category by itself under the art of photography. Some people may, of course, be confused by the term ‘fine art’ being combined with ‘photography’. Since photography is an art form, it is actually quite natural to combine it and come out with a fine art category.
As we all know, fine art is a form of art that showcases the artist’s skills in his or her masterpieces. In this type of photography, instead of using a brush and paint and canvas, the artist uses modern equipment, the camera, to express his creativity and piece of art. Thus, the artist cum photographer creates a masterpiece using light, camera, lens and digital photo editing.
Beautiful piece of art
Yes, this category of photography doesn’t merely mean the artist capturing pictures using his camera. Rather, the artist will creatively capture images and further enhance his images using skilful photo editing. The image will be edited or ‘painted’ using the computer so that it will end up as a beautiful piece of art instead of just a plain photograph.
Some photographers may scoff at this category of photographer artists and say that this group depends too much on the computer to ‘save’ their lousy photography skills. But let it be known that more often than not, the photographer is actually a very creative photographer who can capture creatively composed shots and then use his editing skills to turn the images into works of art further.
The photographer is not merely relying on computer photo editing to save his ‘lousy photos’. Instead, he uses his artistic computer editing skill to enhance further and bring out the beauty of his work of art. It is rather similar to an artist who uses different colours to bring out his work of art.
Creative fine art photographer
Many people also confuse an artistic photographer with a photographer who uses too much photo editing to enhance his photographs. To differentiate between photographers of different categories, you only need to look at his work. An artistic photographer will produce artistic shots with depth and a composition similar to paintings. In contrast, photographers of other categories, such as photojournalism or sports, will have a totally different composition, lighting, and editing style.
Nowadays, this special category of photography can be applied to almost anything. If you want your pre-wedding photographs or even wedding day photographs to resemble that of an artistic masterpiece, all you need to do is look for a skilled, creative fine art photographer to take gorgeous shots of you on your special day. You will not regret having such beautiful pictures of your wedding day, or you and your husband as photographs will last forever!