Fashion Photography, fashion photography, and fashion photography
My recent experience of fashion photography has triggered me into thinking about how to best to present fashion photo shoots. When clients land on my web site, I have no way of telling which aspects of fashion photography they are looking for. The industry is huge and I can see why my colleagues only focus on niches.
My recent work seems to fit into 3 of the many categories.
- Fashion photography with Models
- Fashion, but really what I would describe as clothing photography
- Fashion photography, but concentrating on the fashion brand
Model Photography
I think this is what most people think of when they talk about a fashion photo shoot. Generally an indoor studio shoot with a model, and make-up artist and stylists along with an art or product director guiding the ‘look’ of the shoot.
Clothing Photography
This varies widely from accessories to full product ranges and the photographs concentrate on the clothing itself and not so much the environment its presented in.
Fashion Brand Photography
These shoots concentrate on associating the brand/label/design with a lifestyle and the emphasis is less on the model and the clothing in detail, but more on associating a lifestyle and getting the brand label and logo in the shot.
These recent shoots are really just the tip of the iceberg and I’ve not mentioned, catwalk fashion photography, catalogue fashion photography, or any number of niches that clients may want fashion photographs. Then there’s the time and place, night fashion photography, location fashion photography….. the list is endless.
I’ve added a fashion photography page, under the commercial photography section of the site where I hope capture more on this subject.
