Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Choosing Between Professionals And Amateurs For Commercial Photography

By Thelma Kent


In commercial photography Pittsburgh has a wide range of professionals who would fit the label. The term is extremely wide and includes work by any photographer who sells images rather than art. It would thus include anything from low cost stock photographs to expensive images commissioned for advertising campaigns.

The market for photographers exploded with the advent of digital cameras. These items made it possible for amateurs to take relatively good photographs without knowledge of the skills attached to professional photographers. This has led to an abundance of low cost images being sold under the label 'stock photographs.'

They're often perfectly adequate for smaller companies requiring images for blogs, newsletters and classifieds. However, those running a large ad campaign are far better off using a true professional at old fashioned prices that are far higher. A truly amazing photograph is required, and low cost images cannot fulfil this need.

There are many photographers abusing stylistic fads which soon perform a virtual coup in the photography market. Younger, inexperienced or naive professionals take on stylistic elements of fads thinking they're producing better results. This simply isn't true, and particularly in advertising, it's vital that images are timeless and evocative.

Fads can be defined as styles that become overwhelmingly present for short time periods. Clear examples are recent fads including greyscale images using selective color, infants photographed in oversized teacups and sepia stained images with smoky feels. All these styles dominated images for a time, and each image using them instantly loses its impact.

Fads remove the image's capacity to captivate and emote. These are qualities that are crucial in advertising, so it's important to stay away from them. Because the public becomes so overwhelmed with images that follow a certain fad, they stop responding to them. In the area of commercial photography Pittsburgh businesses should seek out professionals with strong personal styles.




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