In news photographs usually people are not looking at the camera. Even if the image seems posed, it seems as though news photography attempts to capture candid moments.
B. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of “snapshots”, including family photographs, cell-phone shots, photos posted to facebook.
Compared to the above, usually everyone in snapshot photographs are looking at the camera. However, I think it is more evident in snapshots that when people are not looking at the camera, the person is truly being captured in a candid moment. These photographs are often intimate or "secret" (i.e. capturing a photograph of a stranger with a cell phone, not wanting to be seen taking the picture) compared with other photography.
C. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of advertisement photographs, including fashion photography, product photography, etc.
Also compared to news photographs, the people in advertisements are usually making eye contact with the camera/photographer. Even if they are not, it is much more posed than news photography. When people are not being used as subject matter, advertisements often use dramatic affects (i.e lighting, vivid color, composition/framing) to place emphasis on the subject being advertised.
D. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of film/movie and television stills.
Similar to advertisements and fashion photography, film/movie stills are posed. Although they are posed, they create movement and perhaps tell more of a story than other photography. Again, movie and television stills are often dramatic given that the background is probably created with artificial lighting and props.
E. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of yearbook photos, senior pictures, and team/club/sports group shots.
Usually these portraits are only head/shoulder shots, unless it is a sports or group shot when the entire body is visible. These photographs often seem very uniform, even when you compare different sports teams or different senior pictures. Another common aspect is eye contact of the subject and again dramatic lighting, or in sports/groups shots a large overhead light source.
F. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of stock images. http://www.corbisimages.com/ http://www.gettyimages.com/
This photography seems very commercial. Many of the images are zoomed or framed with a "tight" crop. Mostly all of them use vivid color to draw attention to the subject. The photographs without people seem sterile in that they have mostly white backgrounds and only one or two objects. Others seem sterile in that they are stable through the use of pattern/repetition.
G. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of fashion photography.
Although fashion photography is a form of portraiture, it is interesting that the person becomes the least important part of the photograph and that instead, the figure as an "ideal" become important. Most fashion photography does not have a focus on the individual, but rather what the person is wearing. This makes the portrait more commercial/advertised than a photograph to document who someone is. Fashion photographs in which people are not involved are still commercial as they often use vivid color, or dramatic tones through black and white photography. Both ways use dramatic lighting, whether it is creating shadows or using over exposure to make the colors more stark.
H. Describe some common aesthetic aspects of paparazzi shots or celebrity photographs.
Paparazzi shots are often candid and not very attractive photographs. Conceptually they make celebrities appear to be just like everyone else, people who are not glamorous. Ironically, they must not be like everyone else because then nobody would want to take their photograph. Again, these shots often have over exposure and often do not seem like they are staged, in that the photographer probably did not have much time to set up the camera for the shot.
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