In this project, we will look at photography not just as the skills you need to produce good images, but in terms of what you can do with it. Many photographers pay more attention to the graphic content than to the subject matter.
The larger part of photography however, is directed towards its subject, whatever that may be. A news photograph, for example, generally stands out or falls on how successfully it informs us about a person or an event, and this tends to outweigh any master of, for example, colour or composition.
Example: The Royal Wedding. News Photograph. This photographs informs us on the event, yet, the composition of the people within the image is not the best, it is still a photograph which informs.
Of course, however important the subject of a photograph is, the image will always be improved if it is skilfully handled.
For this small project, and in order for you to gain some kind of perspective, scour any of your own photographs or that of others. Choose two photographs.
The first photograph must show the subject, but it must have little importance within the image, and the image making skills, such as colour, lighting or composition, must be the paramount focus of the image.
The second photograph should be the opposite. The subject needs to be the main focus in the image, and the image making skills, must be less important such as the example above of the royal wedding.
Photograph One: Subject of less importance:
Photograph Two: Subject with strong importance:
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