Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As far as photography goes an easy way to define what category your image falls in is by the client. If its general motors and its a car its commercial If its the Pope and they need a new image for the Sistine chapel its art. Depends on who's paying you. Lee Iacocca or Pope John the 14th. Same as if its an art gallery owner who wants you to fill their walls so they can have an opening so they can sell prints. If a family wants you to shoot them in their living room or in your studio than its portrait. My r?sum? database has a bunch of different categories for the jobs I've done in 33.3 years in business. I went in and copied them and pasted it here: Education Print Showings Photojournalism Editorial Promotional Promotional: Musicians Fashion Glamour Product Event Display Prints Graphics Interiors Promotional: Dance Portraiture Promotional: Portraits Industrial Theatrical Lectures Magazine Teaching Awards Conceptual Miscellaneous Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:17:30 +1000 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Art > > Au contraire, mon fr?re > > Fine art is what the client is impressed enough to pay good money for, to > put on their wall ;-) > Nothing I ever shot, that's for sure. > > Cheers, > Geoff > http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman > > > > On 16 November 2012 15:54, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> > wrote: > >> For anyone who has gone through "Fine Art photo" contests, workshops, >> blogs >> etc... This is of no surprise. >> >> "Fine Art Photography," by the fact that it has to have a name, rather >> than >> just "Photography," is a different animal from just about anything any >> Leica shooters (or LUG shooters) would shoot. >> >> It's all about expressing the artist view of their navels, with some >> flying >> goats as a metaphor of some aspects of human psyche or a reflection of the >> inner turmoil of the minority group... >> >> Of course they are the ones that sell the 12 million dollar stuffed >> sharks. >> >> Yea, I am sort of bitter :-) >> >> >> -- >> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information