Commercial Photography
Photography is Everywhere
Composing a Photograph
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100

Often works for a large companies, such as manufacturing firms or studios specializing in advertising or industrial photography.

What is salaried photographers?

100

________photography provides a livelihood for a large number of commercial photographers who specialize in such areas as food, automobiles, clothing, or health and fitness equipment. 

What is Advertising?

100

Cameras capture image within a four-sided space.

What is a frame?


100

Photographers who record moving images using electronic capture methods.

What is videographers?

100

We live in a _____ _____, surrounded by imagery—monochrome or color, still or moving, entertaining or instructional, ugly or beautiful.

What is a visual world?

200

Makes all or most of their living from photographic work. 

What are Commercial Photographers?

200

Like product photography, people photography is a major activity for commercial photographers. 

What is portraiture?

200

The arrangement of visual elements, such as shapes, colors, and textures, within that frame forms the photograph's ___________.

What is composition?

200

School of photographic thought that places strong emphasis on forms and their relationships.

What is abstractionism?

200

A traditional entry route into commercial photography is to be hired as a professional _______ ________. 

What is a photographer's assistant?

300

Commercial photography is an occupation in which photographic skills are used to create images in exchange for _________.

What is payment?

300

All forms of photography can be classified as __________, a record of what the photographer saw - a scene, event, person, or object.

What is documentation?


Each of these photographs records a bit of history that has meaning to the photographer. The entire consumer photographic industry is built on the public's fascination with recording people and events. 

300

The two broadest categories of composition are________ and ___________.

What is horizontal framing (landscape format) and vertical framing (portrait format)?

300

A book or binder of your best work to show potential clients or employers.

What is a portfolio?

300

For a photographer, _______ is a specialized skill, something far different from the way most people look at the world around them.

What is seeing?


(Learning to See)

400

Self-employed photographers ,especially those without a physical studio, who actively seek business from many sources and take on various types of photographic assignments.

What are Freelancers?

400

Photographers who produce still pictures and/or video for use in newspapers, magazines, and electronic media.

What is photojournalists?

A major area of documentation is photographic illustration for use in newspapers, magazines, and electronic media. Photojournalists produce thousands of still pictures and many hours of video each day to meet the demand for news ranging from political developments and international conflicts to fires, auto accidents, and sporting events,

400

A repetition of elements within the frame. The repetition may present a feeling of rhythm. 

What is a pattern?

400

____________ placed strong emphasis on forms and their relationships. 

What is abstractionism?

400

____ ____ and well-developed photographic skills are basic requirements for successfully entering the commercial photography field. 

What is artistic ability?

500

Governmental statistics show slightly more than 136,000 workers classified as photographers, about two-thirds of who are___________?

What is self-employed?

500

Education/training/motivation

What is audiovisual programs?


500

The arrangement of major visual elements within the frame. ________ may be symmetrical (formal) or asymmetrical (informal). 

What is balance?

500

While such photos may be produced by a publication's staff photographers, this area represents a significant opportunity for self-employed photographers, often referred to as ______________.

What is a freelancer?

500

Seeing in the photographic sense involves awareness of the relationship of ______, the _______ content of the scene, the play of _____ and ________, and meaning that goes beyond the obvious. 

What is:

The relationship of masses and color,

The emotional content of the scene,

The play of light and shadow?